The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Astronomers came to the surprising ...
Astronomers have uncovered two extraordinary cosmic structures that are challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of ...
Astronomers have discovered a colossal cosmic structure that’s so big it threatens to undermine our entire understanding of the universe. The Big Ring spans about 3% of the radius of the entire ...
According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...
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WASHINGTON — Using data from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters. The cause, they suggest, is the ...
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Just how large is the universe? The short answer is 93 billion light-years — at least. That 93 billion light-year number refers to what astronomers call the observable universe, and it extends about ...