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Nobel Prize in Physics: 1901-Present
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn illustration of gravitational waves. According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the...
Largest-ever computer simulation of the universe escalates cosmology dilemma
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe images show the dark matter halo of the largest galaxy cluster formed in the simulation at...
Massive 'El Gordo' galaxy cluster suggests dark matter smashes into itself
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA view of space with blue and pink hazes overlaying lots of stars and galaxies. Strange behavior in...
Can cosmology untangle the universe’s most elusive mysteries?
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist...
Astronomers say we may live at the center of a cosmic void 2 billion light-years wide that defies...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoNew research suggests our galaxy sits right near the center of the KBC void, an expanse of...
Biggest ever supercomputer simulation to investigate universe’s evolution
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAstronomers have carried out the biggest ever computer simulations, from the Big Bang to the present...
Unknown ultra-light particles linked to dark matter could be found using atomic clocks
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe use of atomic clocks could help bring cosmology and astrophysics "down to Earth" by allowing...
Dark matter could have an invisible “periodic table,” study suggests — but it's still elusive
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agoBlack hole, dark matter, periodic table of elements Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images When...
The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, new theoretical study suggests
Live Science via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA blue nebula looks like an eye in this NASA image The expansion of the universe could be a mirage,...
‘Space Oddities’ Review: Forces Unknown
The Wall Street Journal· 3 months agoBOOKSHELF It’s what scientists crave—that one piece of the puzzle that doesn’t quite fit. In the 1910s, Vesto Slipher at the Lowell Observatory in...