Mapping the early universe with NASA’s Webb Telescope Astronomers and engineers have designed telescopes, in part, to be “time travelers.” The farther away an object is, the longer its light takes to reach Earth. Peering […]
Astronomers discover ‘monster’ quasar from early universe Astronomers have discovered the most massive quasar known in the early universe, containing a monster black hole with a mass equivalent to 1.5 billion suns. Formally designated as […]
Scientists reveal a lost eight billion light years of universe evolution Last year, the Advanced LIGO-VIRGO gravitational-wave detector network recorded data from 35 merging black holes and neutron stars. A great result—but what did they […]
Scientists close in on 12-billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe’s ‘dark age’ Today, stars fill the night sky. But when the universe was in its infancy, it contained no stars at all. And […]
New distance measurements bolster challenge to basic model of universe A new set of precision distance measurements made with an international collection of radio telescopes have greatly increased the likelihood that theorists need to revise […]
Cosmic bursts unveil universe’s missing matter Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of “missing matter,” long predicted to exist in the universe, but never before detected. The researchers have […]