The strange behavior of the massive merging galaxy cluster could be explained by the collision of dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious substance, with itself. However, the currently most favored model of cosmology is the cold dark matter (CDM) model, which posits that dark matter, which is virtually invisible because it does not interact with… Read More »
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.com. If the James Webb telescope was 10 times more powerful, could we see the beginning of time? – Sam H., age 12, Prosper, Texas The James Webb Space Telescope, or… Read More »
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.com. If the James Webb telescope was 10 times more powerful, could we see the beginning of time? – Sam H., age 12, Prosper, Texas The James Webb Space Telescope, or… Read More »
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and estimated this effect Albert Einstein More than 100 years ago, we discovered that small galaxies in the early universe had a massive impact that shaped the entire universe when it was less than 1 billion years old. The international team found that galaxies similar to the… Read More »
“What came first, the galaxy or its monster black hole?” Technically, this is a much older riddle than the riddle about the chicken or the egg; although we only became aware of this relatively recently. And according to new research, scientists may finally have an answer. Supermassive black holes, which existed near the dawn of… Read More »
‘It’s the season for twinkling lights, both in your neighborhood and in the depths of space. To celebrate the festive season, NASA has released: this is the composite imageIt looks like a Christmas lights wonderland or maybe a colorful snow globe. The subject of the image is UGC 8091, an irregular dwarf containing billions of… Read More »