ALMA resolves gas impacted by young jets from supermassive black hole
Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away by using the
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Researchers look for dark matter close to home
Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don’t know what, exactly, it is.
Looking Up From the Mountaintop: Q&A with a Telescope Instrument’s Lead Observer
In this Q&A Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, a lead observer for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), shares her experiences at the DESI site near Tucson, Arizona, including evening observing stints to run through detailed checklists and probe how the instrument’s components are working.
Read moreHolographic cosmological model and thermodynamics on the horizon of the universe
A Kanazawa University researcher proposes a novel cosmological model to study thermodynamics on the horizon of the universe
Read morePaired with super telescopes, model Earths guide hunt for life
ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell University astronomers have created five models representing key points from our planet’s evolution, like chemical snapshots
Read moreAstronomers use slime mould to map the universe’s largest structures
The single-cell organism known as slime mould ( Physarum polycephalum ) builds complex web-like filamentary networks in search of food,
Read moreShining light on sleeping cataclysmic binaries
New simulation-based study supports contested 35-year-old predictions, shows that observable novae are just “tip of the iceberg”
Read moreScientist recreates icy space conditions to understand makeup of molecular clouds
Northern Arizona University planetary scientist prepares for launch of James Webb Space Telescope
Read moreEntanglement by identity, or interaction without ever touching
What is interaction and when does it occur? Intuition suggests that the necessary condition for the interaction of independently created
Read moreStar formation project maps nearby interstellar clouds
Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The
Read moreSupermassive black holes shortly after the Big Bang: How to seed them
These space giants would not have had the time to develop in the young Universe. Yet, observations say they were already present; a new study proposes a response to the mystery
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Berkeley Lab Cosmologists Are Top Contenders in Machine Learning Challenge
In a machine learning challenge dubbed the 2020 Large Hadron Collider Olympics, a team of cosmologists from Berkeley Lab developed a code that best identified a mock signal hidden in simulated particle-collision data.
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