News articles tagged with 'matter'
Ticking stellar time bomb identified
— 18 Nov 2009 12:30 | Astronomy'One of the major problems in modern astrophysics is the fact that we still do not know exactly what kinds of stellar system explode as a Type Ia supernova,' says Patrick Woudt, from... — full story
Prototype developed to detect dark matter
— 26 Sep 2009 10:21 | AstronomyA team of researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) and the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS, in France) has developed a 'scintillating bolometer,' a device that the... — full story
Is the Milky Way doomed to be destroyed by galactic bombardment? Unlikely
— 1 Sep 2009 13:25 | AstronomyAs scientists attempt to learn more about how galaxies evolve, an open question has been whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbours will one day tear apart the disk of the... — full story
To understand the universe, science calls on the ultrasmall
— 16 Aug 2009 17:00 | PhysicsWill the universe expand outward for all of eternity and end in a vast, dark, cold, sterile, diffuse nothingness? Or will the 'Big Bang' - the gargantuan explosion that formed the universe... — full story
Study plunges standard theory of cosmology into crisis
— 5 May 2009 16:55 | AstronomyAs modern cosmologists rely more and more on the ominous 'dark matter' to explain otherwise inexplicable observations, much effort has gone into the detection of this mysterious substance... — full story
Duke physicists see the cosmos in a coffee cup
— 15 Apr 2009 02:42 | PhysicsA Duke University professor and his graduate student have discovered a universal principle that unites the curious interplay of light and shadow on the surface of your morning coffee... — full story
Cracking the crusts of neutron stars
— 25 Mar 2009 15:16 | AstronomyResearch by Michigan State University scientists is helping shed light on neutron stars, city-sized globs of ultra-dense matter that occasionally collapse into black holes... — full story
Astronomers gravitate toward Einstein's telescope
— 21 Feb 2009 11:26 | AstronomyScientists are harnessing the cosmos as a scientific 'instrument' in their quest to determine the makeup of the Universe. The University of Chicago's Evalyn Gates calls the instrument... — full story
New recipe for dwarf galaxies: Start with leftover gas
— 19 Feb 2009 10:10 | AstronomyThere is more than one way to make a dwarf galaxy, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has found a new recipe. The spacecraft has, for the first time, identified dwarf galaxies forming... — full story
Cosmologists 'see' the cosmic dawn
— 11 Feb 2009 09:20 | AstronomyThe images, produced by scientists at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology, show the 'Cosmic Dawn' - the formation of the first big galaxies in the Universe... — full story