Bildung… In the Search for Alien Life, ‚Everyone Is an Astrobiologist‘ 24 Jan 201823 Jan 2018 Mary Voytek, NASA's senior scientist for astrobiology, likes to tell other researchers that "everyone is an astrobiologist; they just don't know it yet." By Calla Cofield | SPACE.com What she…
Bildung… New Supernova Analysis Questions Dark Energy, Cosmic Acceleration 16 Sep 201715 Sep 2017 Timescape cosmology offers a way around one of the universe's best mysteries. By Michael Byrne | MOTHERBOARD One of my personal favorite features of the universe is that it is…
Fortschritt… Mystery Gravitational Lens Hints at Possible Primordial Black Holes, Dark Matter 26 Aug 201725 Aug 2017 At the very least, the new discovery offers a novel way of magnifying the distant cosmos. By Michael Byrne | MOTHERBOARD Astronomers have an unexpected new tool for spying on…
Geschichte… Our Closest Earthlike Planet Appears to Be Covered in Water 8 Okt 20167 Okt 2016 Jupiter’s moon Europa recently became the best candidate yet for harboring alien life within our Solar System. But in the search for life outside of our cosmic backyard, an Earth-sized,…
Fortschritt… Coming Soon: A New Telescope Array Hunting for Extragalactic Gamma Rays 23 Sep 201622 Sep 2016 On Monday, the Council of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory signed a deal with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias to place 19 telescopes on the island of La Palma…
Fortschritt… Supermaterials Offer New Means of Searching for Superlight Dark Matter 20 Sep 201619 Sep 2016 No one said detecting dark matter would be easy. We didn't even know about the stuff until a couple of decades ago, after all, despite the fact that it represents…
Bildung… Why Gamma Ray Bursts Are the Most Epic of All Apocalyptic Scenarios 2 Aug 20161 Aug 2016 Asteroid impacts. Nuclear war. Unhinged climate change. These are all respectable, solid entries into the great pantheon of doomsday scenarios that could wipe out life on Earth. By Becky Ferreira…
Geschichte… Key Dark Matter Detection Experiment Again Comes Up Empty-Handed 24 Jul 201623 Jul 2016 After 20-month search period, a key dark matter detection experiment has officially come up empty-handed, casting doubt on the existence of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS), which have been far…
Bildung… Could Dark Energy Just Be Frozen Neutrinos? 17 Jul 201616 Jul 2016 Dark energy is arguably the best mystery in astrophysics. Here we have an uneasy placeholder for almost all of the energy in the universe—energy that, as you read this, is…
Bildung… How Supermassive Black Holes Kill Off Old Galaxies 26 Mai 201625 Mai 2016 Galaxies get old and die. This is natural. Existing stars within an aging galaxy will eventually become dim and cool, while the galaxy itself—and the other galaxies it's likely to…
Freidenker… Dark Matter + Black Hole = Wormhole? 25 Apr 201624 Apr 2016 According to a paper posted to the arXiv pre-print server last week, the difference between an everyday supermassive black hole and a space-time tunneling wormhole may be a lacing of…
Bildung… Dark Energy May Be Distorting Our View of Gravitational Waves 25 Jan 201624 Jan 2016 Dark energy may be distorting long-sought gravitational wave signals from distant sources in the universe, according to a paper posted to the arXiv pre-print server by astrophysicists at Penn State…
Bildung… Behold The Most Realistic Black Hole Simulation Yet 23 Apr 201522 Apr 2015 What happens when two black holes collide? Spectacular new simulations show the swirling action like never before, and they're definitely worth a watch. By Jaqueline Howard|The Huffington Post Dr. Stuart…
