The universe’s expansion rate is accelerating across the cosmos, driven by a mysterious force known as dark energy, but perhaps this acceleration isn’t happening at the boundaries of black holes, new research suggests. Rather than implying that dark energy does not move around the boundaries of black holes, this idea suggests that this mysterious force… Read More »
On Thursday, May 23, the European Space Agency (ESA) and collaborators released a series of five images created by the revolutionary space telescope Euclid. The Euclid consortium previously published five images from the space telescope on November 7, 2023. Euclid has been labeled Europe’s “dark universe detective” because its wide field of view allows it… Read More »
Europe’s Euclid telescope has sent back the largest images of the universe ever taken from space, as part of its quest to unlock the secrets of the universe. Five images released by the European Space Agency (ESA) offer an exciting glimpse into the distant cosmic past, capturing vast new areas of the sky in unprecedented… Read More »
The European Space Agency (ESA) will release five new images from the Euclid space telescope on Thursday, May 23. And if the previous batch of photos is anything to go by, space fans should be in for an absolute treat. “Five new portraits of our universe were captured during Euclid’s first observations, each revealing surprising… Read More »
A spherical proportional counter detector at the Modane underground laboratory in 2019. He had a spherical copper container filled with noble gas to search for dark matter. (Submitted by Marie-Cécile Piro – image source) Dark matter has never been seen before, but scientists think it could help explain the mysteries of the universe. And a… Read More »
More than twenty years have passed since the discovery of dark energy. So scientists have had more than 20 years to unravel the secrets of this invisible substance that seems to tear the universe apart. But still they know almost nothing about it. In fact, dark energy may not even be a substance. This could… Read More »
Astronomers are mapping millions of galaxies in our universe to better understand dark energy.NASA/ESA/H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski, A. Koekemoer, R. Windhorst and Z. Levay For decades, astronomers have been wondering about dark energy and why it is pulling our universe apart. New data from the largest 3D map of our universe shows we may… Read More »
Travis Lange, LSST’s deputy project manager, shined a flashlight at the LSST Camera, which has a 5-foot-wide lens.Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Scientists have produced the largest digital camera ever for astronomy, weighing 3 tons and with a 1.5-meter lens. The LSST camera is designed to capture thousands of 3,200-megapixel images of the entire… Read More »
A new theoretical paper suggests that the accelerating expansion of the universe may be driven by a mysterious form of matter called “particleless” that does not fit the Standard Model of particle physics. Scientists widely accept that the universe is expanding, but the reason for this expansion remains unclear. One of the most popular explanations… Read More »