Some 3.5 billion light years from Earth, in the Virgo Constellation, there are two black holes (binary black hole), locked by gravity, that are madly orbiting each other. But their orbits are continuing to close in and scientists from Columbia University expect that in about 100,000 years they will join together in one huge cosmic […]
Whirling Black Holes’ Dance to End in Cosmic Blast
Posted September 18th, 2015 at 10:20 pm (UTC-4)
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Bed-In for Science; Microbes Abound in House Dust ; Twin Black Holes Power Quasar
Posted August 28th, 2015 at 7:43 pm (UTC-4)
ESA Experiment Will Send a Dozen Men to Bed for 60 Days How would you like to spend the next 60 days in bed? That’s what the European Space Agency is asking 12 men to do, all in the name of science. The first members of this group of a dozen will hit the sack […]
Astronomers Capture 3D Images of Mysterious Intergalactic Matter
Posted April 30th, 2014 at 8:05 pm (UTC-4)
For the first time, 3D images have been captured of a cosmological entity called the intergalactic medium (IGM). Until now, the structure of IGM had been theoretical. The discovery could provide astronomers with a new understanding of galactic and intergalactic dynamics. The images were captured with an instrument built at the California Institute of Technology […]
Scientists Discover Universe’s Largest Known Structure
Posted January 14th, 2013 at 7:27 pm (UTC-4)
Scientists have found the largest known structure in the universe, a cluster of galactic cores so vast it would take four billion years for a spacecraft traveling at the speed of light to cross it. The sighting challenges a theory from Einstein which suggests such a massive object shouldn’t exist in the universe. A quasar […]