Rarest Time Bomb Star System Discovered
Researchers revealed Sunday they have discovered a new star system that belongs to one of the rarest star types in the known universe.
Monster Galaxy Observed at Dawn of Universe
Astronomers obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the team revealed that the molecular clouds in the galaxy are highly unstable, which leads to runaway star formation. Monster galaxies are thought to be the ancestors of the huge elliptical galaxies […]
Measuring Growth of Universe Reveals a Mystery
Astronomers have made the most precise measurement to date of the rate at which the universe is expanding. But there’s also some unsettling news: The new number remains at odds with independent measurements of the early universe’s expansion, which could mean that there is something unknown about the makeup of the universe. Is something unpredicted […]
There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe
Dark matter and dark energy may not actually exist, according to a study which suggests that accelerating expansion of the universe and the movement of the stars in the galaxies can be explained without these concepts. For close to a century, researchers have hypothesized that the universe contains more matter than can be directly observed, […]