Researchers discovered a galactic wind from a supermassive black hole that sheds light on the evolution of galaxies.
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Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.
Astronomers find a third type of supernova and explain a mystery from 1054 AD.
In 1990, we only knew of the ones in our Solar System. Today, we know of thousands, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
The Universe has asymmetries, but that’s a good thing. Imperfections are essential for the existence of stars and even life itself.
Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.
An analysis of the gravitational wave data from black hole mergers show that the event horizon area, and entropy, always increases.
Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]
When you don’t have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.
The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It’s theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn’t agree.
Soviet researchers studied crime through a Marxist-Leninist lens. Under Lenin, a humanitarian approach to criminality briefly emerged, but dissipated when Stalin rose to power.
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
We’ve already observed three cases where it’s happened. When you look at an object in space, it’s pretty easy to tell if it’s a star or a planet. Stars are […]
A single lifetime is more than enough to take you to the limits of the Universe. Right now, there are only three things limiting how far our spacecrafts can take […]
How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.
This map of Hutterite colonies in North America says something about religion and evolution — and more precisely, speciation.
Congratulations to Penrose, Ghez and Genzel, and to black hole enthusiasts everywhere. On October 6, 2020, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded towards research in black holes. 50% of […]
Your life is far more arbitrary than you might think.
At very high and very low temperatures, matter takes on properties that open up an entire Universe of remarkable new possibilities.
Information may not seem like something physical, yet it has become a central concern for physicists. A wonderful new book explores the importance of the “dataome” for the physical, biological, and human worlds.
No. No no no. Just… no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it’s a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
Move over, IC 1101. You may be impressively large, but you never stood a chance against the largest known galaxy: Alcyoneus.
And if it does strike us, how much damage will it cause? Will near-Earth asteroid Apophis strike us in 2068? Generically, asteroids under ~1 km in size are irregularly shaped, will […]
In terms of the planets we’ve discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?
And either way, is energy or information conserved? When two things in the Universe that “always” occur meet one another, how do you know which one will win? Gravitational waves, […]
The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is the event of a lifetime.
Only the best physical theories outlast the minds that invented them. Throughout the 20th century, a number of discoveries revolutionized our Universe. The discovery of the interior structure of atoms as […]
Can spacekime help us make headway on some of the most pernicious inconsistencies in physics?