For decades, scientists have disagreed about a fundamental question: how quickly is the Universe expanding? But this year, astronomer Wendy Freedman announced results that could help to put the ...
This stunning image of V838 Mon, is located about 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, placing the star at the outer edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The ...
(via Sabine Hossenfelder) In the past decade, astrophysicists have found a lot of evidence that our large-scale theory for how the universe works has some large-scale problems as well. It has, however ...
The simulations will be used by astronomers to test the standard model of cosmology. The world's second fastest supercomputer — it used to be the fastest, before its rival machine came online ...
Stephen Hawking’s 1966 doctoral thesis, Properties of Expanding Universes, represents a cornerstone in the field of cosmology and theoretical physics. Written when Hawking was just 24 years old ...