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Astronomy
New Ideas In The Search For Dark Matter
Since the 1980s, researchers have been running experiments in search of particles that make up dark…
A Black Hole’s Heart Is Still Beating
The first confirmed heartbeat of a supermassive black hole is still going strong more than ten…
Research Provides New Explanation For Neutrino Anomalies In Antarctica
A new research paper co-authored by a Virginia Tech assistant professor of physics provides a new…
Hubble Catches Globular Cluster NGC 6441 Sparkling
Almost like snowflakes, the stars of the globular cluster NGC 6441 sparkle peacefully in the night…
STEREO Watches Comet ATLAS as Solar Orbiter Crosses Its Tail
NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO-A spacecraft, captured these images of comet ATLAS as it…
Scientists Detect Crab Nebula Using Innovative Gamma-ray Telescope
Scientists have detected gamma rays from the Crab Nebula, the most famous of supernova remnants, using…
Discovery Sheds New Light on Famous Einstein Ring
Determined to find a needle in a cosmic haystack, a pair of astronomers time traveled through…
Hubble Makes Surprising Find in Early Universe
New results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest the formation of the first stars and…
Intense Flash From Milky Way’s Black Hole Illuminated Gas Far Outside of Our Galaxy
About 3.5 million years ago, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way…