Big Bang
The Gaia Mission Could Moonlight as a Gravitational Wave Detector
A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge recently showed how the Gaia mission could also help in the…
Too Big, Too Soon. Monster Black Hole Seen Shortly After the Big Bang
An international team of astronomers, using multiple observatories, have found the youngest and most distant quasar to date.
The Earth Does Stop the Occasional Neutrino
A new study by the IceCube collaboration has shown that Earth stops the occasional neutrino, thus confirming a prediction made…
Cutting-Edge Astronomy Confirms Most Ancient Galaxy to Date
Using a combined technique, a team of international astronomers have spotted a galaxy 11 billion light years away, making it…
Experiment Detects Mysterious Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering For the First Time
The COHERENT experiment, an international collaboration, made the first-ever detection of neutrinos bumping into the nucleus of other atoms
Gravitational Astronomy? How Detecting Gravitational Waves Changes Everything
We’ve now had multiple detections of gravitational waves, opening up a whole new field: gravitational astronomy. We talk about the…
How Do We Know the Universe is Flat? Discovering the Topology of the Universe
Cosmologists tell us that the Universe is flat. It sure feels like 3-dimensions. What does this even mean, and how…
What Was Cosmic Inflation? The Quest to Understand the Earliest Universe
The Big Bang was a tremendous theory, but it had a few problems. In 1980 Alan Guth developed the revolutionary…
Large Hadron Collider Discovers 5 New Gluelike Particles
Researchers from the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) have announced the discovery of five new particles, which could shed…
The Universe Has A Lithium Problem
The Big Bang Theory predicts three times as much lithium as observed. Where are the scientists hiding our lithium?