After remaining silent for a decade, one of the most powerful magnets in the cosmos abruptly burst back to life in late 2018. The reawakening of this “magnetar” named XTE J1810-197, a city-sized star born from a supernova explosion, was
Read Full ArticleProf Peter Higgs will be best known for that mysterious-sounding substance nicknamed the 'God particle' - or just simply, and probably more widely, the Higgs boson. He came up with the radical idea in the 1960s when he desired to
Read Full ArticleThe Cosmos is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that really the beginning, and is that actually its age? KEY TAKEAWAYS · If we calculate from the start of the hot Big Bang,
Read Full ArticleThe astounding discovery was made by The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration bymonitoring spacetime distortions. In a fresh intergalactic discovery, an "extremely exciting" gravitational-wave signal from the far side of the universehas been detected by scientists. The researchers stumbled upon ripples running
Read Full ArticleResearchers may have discovered a major error in their understanding of that enigmatic cosmic force. That could be great news for the fate of the universe. On Thursday, astronomers who are carrying out what they label as the biggest and
Read Full ArticleA colossal citizen science project isall set to study how the animal kingdom responds to April 8’s total solar eclipse. Tens of millions of sky-watchers are expected to witness the total solar eclipse above North America on 8th April. Shrieks,
Read Full ArticleNASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has earned fame for capturing our universe with unparalleled precision and sensitivity. Its images are beautiful apart from being scientifically useful. From the pink, purple and orange of Cassiopeia A to the gold and
Read Full ArticleAstronomers are well aware that galaxies form through mergers. Galactic mergershave been occurring since the earliest epochs of cosmic time. Using the Webb telescope (JWST) astronomers discovered a colossal merger of young galaxies going on abouthalf a million years post
Read Full ArticleThe cosmic distance ladder might have another rung soon. In about 5 billion years, the sun will become bereft of the fuel needed for nuclear fusion in its core. This will make inner core of the sun to collapse under
Read Full ArticleA gigantic new 3D map of space includes more than 1 million SMBH powered quasars, which are amongst the brightest objects in the universe. Scientists have uncovered a moving 3D map of SMBHs that covers the largest volume of our
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