Cosmology
Message in a Wobble: Black Holes Send Memos in Light
[/caption] Imagine a spinning black hole so colossal and so powerful that it kicks photons, the basic units of light,…
Universe Could be 250 Times Bigger Than What is Observable
[/caption] Our Universe is an enormous place; that's no secret. What is up for discussion, however, is just how enormous…
Planck Unveils the Wonders of the Universe
[/caption] The mission began on 13th August 2009 with a goal to image the echo’s of the birth of the…
Shedding New Light on the Cosmic Dark Ages
[/caption] From a University of Cambridge press release: Remnants of the first stars have helped astronomers get closer to unlocking…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Apparent Superluminal Motion
[/caption] The recent list of Universe Today's Top 10 Stories of 2010 included the story Faster than Light Pulsars Discovered…
First Observational Evidence Other Universes?
In the realm of far out ideas in science, the notion of a multiverse is one of the stranger ones.…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Edge of Greatness
[/caption] The so-called End of Greatness is where you give up trying to find more superlatives to describe large scale…
Penrose: WMAP Shows Evidence of ‘Activity’ Before Big Bang
[/caption] Have scientists seen evidence of time before the Big Bang, and perhaps a verification of the idea of the…
A Cosmologist’s Wish List: Four Most-Wanted Discoveries
Cosmology is a fairly young science, one which attempts to reconstruct the history of our Universe from billions of years…
Cosmologist Allan Sandage Dies
[/caption] Cosmologist Allan R. Sandage, who helped define the fields of observational cosmology and extragalactic astronomy, died November 13, 2010,…