‘Cosmic Glitch’ could explain why gravity acts differently across the Universe
Einstein’s theory of gravity may behave slightly differently across distances of billions of light-years, with gravity appearing about…
Could a cosmic uncertainty principle help explain dark matter?
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In 1964, a strange background noise led two scientists to uncover how the universe began |
Back in 1964, the two scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson found themselves at Bell Labs with a…
Dark Matter: Scientists tested Newton’s Law across 750 million light-years: Does gravity still work as Newton predicted?
It’s been more than three centuries since Isaac Newton figured out that gravity pulls things together. You’d think,…
Solving the Black Hole Paradox May Require Seven Dimensions
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Not Even the Largest Cosmic Objects Can Escape Newton and Einstein, Study Finds
Gravity is so weird that it essentially forces cosmologists into subscribing to one of two equally radical conclusions:…
Astronomers Just Dropped the Largest High-Res 3D Map of the Universe
Since March, scientists have been keeping their eyes peeled as the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) started chipping…
Astronomers Say They Finally Found Half the Universe’s Matter. It was Missing In Plain Sight
An artist’s depiction of the halo of hot hydrogen gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy (center) and two…
Astronomers Just Nailed Down the Universe’s Expansion Rate… and Now They Have More Questions
One major, unsolved problem in astronomy involves the Hubble constant, a number representing how quickly the universe expands.…
Groundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big Bang
A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the…