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Somewhere there might be another you, standing alone on the beach of an alien planet, watching waves crash on the shore until — wait, that was a scene from Doctor Who.

A potentially transformative theoretical study links a new model of quantum gravity with the universe’s bizarrely accelerating rate of expansion

GLOC would have a view of around 70 percent of the observable universe. It could detect everything from gravitational waves to dark matter, black hole mergers and neutron stars. With no atmosphere, light pollution or noise from the ever-shifting tectonic plates to contend with as it would on Earth, its sensitivity would be unprecedented. “Our Moon is seismically much quieter than earth in the frequency ranges that are crucial for hunting black holes,” Jani told SYFY WIRE.” The natural v...

Giant Comet Found in Outer Solar System by Dark Energy Survey Estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, the unusual wandering body will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2031 Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Bernardinelli Array G. Bernstein (UPenn)/DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Music by Zero-project :Through the Looking Glass (zero-project.gr) Acknowledgments: T.A. Rector, M. Zamani & J. Miller Zooming on Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein. This zoom shows an image ...

  “According to Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, nothing can escape from the gravity of a black hole once it has passed a point of no return, known as the event horizon,” explained Niayesh Afshordi, a physics and astronomy professor at Waterloo in 2020 about echoes in gravitational wave signals that hint that the event horizon of a black hole may be more complicated than scientists currently think based on research reporting the first tentative detection of these echoes, caused b...

How we photographed the first image of a black hole ❚  All products were chosen independently by our editorial team. This review contains affiliate links and we may receive a commission for purchases made. Please read our affiliates FAQ page to find out more. How we photographed the first image of a black hole May 19, 2021 at 9:25 am In April 2019, astronomers announced to the world that they had done the unthinkable: they had managed to photograph – for the very first...

Date Time Connecting smallest and largest scales Cosmic particle accelerators like blazars (artist’s impression) are typical objects for multi-messenger astronomy (Image credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab) Established in 2019 with its central hub at CERN, the European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT) aims to bring together the European community of theoretical astroparticle physicists and cosmologists to tackle some of the greatest mysteries in science. There are ...

University of Amsterdam Dr Jason Hessels has been appointed professor of Observational High-Energy Astrophysics, in particular Radio Astronomy at the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Jason Hessels (Photo: ASTRON) Hessels’ research focuses on using large radio telescopes to explore the astrophysics of some of the most energetic objects and phenomena in the Universe. Astronomical observations conducted using radio waves and radio telescopes (Radio Astronomy) play a criti...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The boxes show how filaments and superclusters of galaxies grow over time, from billions of years after the Big Bang to current structures. view more  Credit: Modification of work by CXC/MPE/V. Springel The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern Physics at the same time: the problema of Charge and Parity in the strong interaction, and the mystery of dark matte...

German astrophysicist Heino Falcke led one of the most ambitious scientific endeavours in history: producing the first image of a black hole. This required the simultaneous use of eight of Earth’s most powerful telescopes from Mexico to Spain to the South Pole, and €14 million in European funding. The image took two years to render under the weight of data to be processed. Falcke oversaw proceedings from the Pico Veleta telescope in the southern Spanish mountain range of Sierra Nevada...