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Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

Because their light-based “universe” could be controlled extremely well, Falque and his colleagues could create not only event horizons but also similar space-time structures that are less steep.

Research scientist at Caltech, Dr. Andreas Faisst, was one of the leading scientists behind the creation of the largest map of the universe. He joined us to share all the fascinating details.

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

A new batch of 15 Giant Radio Galaxies, the largest of which is 12.4 light-years wide, could help reveal how black holes and galactic mergers help the universe's largest single objects grow so large.

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Dev says that if the incoming particle was dark matter and not a neutrino, it could explain this mystery. The shallow predicted path of the incoming particle meant that it had to travel through ...

Credit: Shutterstock For decades, astronomers have been trying to nail down the value of the Hubble constant—a measure of how fast the universe is expanding. But some cosmologists say there’s evidence ...