The newest generation of radio telescopes can detect objects so faint, we’ve never seen them before.
- Senior Lecturer in Physics, Western Sydney University
In the search for elusive particles called neutrinos, researchers are stringing thousands of detectors in the depths of the Mediterranean.
The discovery helps explain a long-running cosmic mystery about why some stars hurtle through space much faster than others.
Astronomers have found a true colossus of a jet in the night sky, over 100 times larger than our galaxy. It’s almost perfectly straight, which presents a puzzle.
Over 1 million light-years end to end, the pressurised jet shoots away from a central black hole in a nearby galaxy.
The multiverse has been the topic of multiple recent films, such as Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Everything Everywhere All At Once: but what does science know about the multiverse?
Anda dapat membayangkan lubang putih sebagai lubang hitam terbalik — tetapi apakah hal seperti itu benar-benar mungkin?
You can imagine a white hole as being a black hole in reverse — but is such a thing really possible?
If you fall one storey, dust yourself off – you’ll be fine. If you fall seven storeys: sorry, but you’ve probably got about 2 seconds to prepare to meet your maker.
The recent BICEP2 observations – of swirls in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background – have been proclaimed as many things, from evidence of the Big Bang and gravitational waves to something…
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