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Science Daily
February 9, 2018
Astrophysicists settle cosmic debate on magnetism of planets and stars. Laser experiments verify 'turbulent dynamo' theory of how cosmic magnetic fields are created. Date: February 9, 2018; Source: University of Chicago; Summary: Using one of the world's most powerful laser facilities, a team of scientists experimentallyÃÂ ...
Harvard Crimson
February 8, 2018
... the researchers wrote that their universe simulation “significantly expands the scope with simulations of larger volumes, at higher resolution, and with new physics.” Naiman said that IllustrisTNG includes new observational data and allows astrophysicists to study the interactions between large numbers ofÃÂ ...
KGOU
February 7, 2018
Image of the gravitational lens RX J1131-1231 galaxy with the lens galaxy at the center and four lensed background quasars. It is estimated that there are trillions of planets in the central elliptical galaxy in this image. University of Oklahoma. Researchers at the University of Oklahoma believe they haveÃÂ ...
The Hindu
February 5, 2018
This galaxy is located 3.8 billion light years away. Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: NASA. PTI. February 05, 2018 14:03 IST. Updated: February 05, 2018 14:06 IST. more-in. The galaxy is located 3.8 billion light years away. Researchers have for the first time discovered a populationÃÂ ...
Science Daily
February 2, 2018
Date: February 2, 2018; Source: University of Oklahoma; Summary: Astrophysicists have discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing -- an astronomical phenomenon and the only known method capable of discovering planets at truly great distances from the EarthÃÂ ...
ScienceAlert
February 1, 2018
Astrophysicists Have Built The Most Detailed Simulation of The Universe Ever Created. 1 billion light years in a ... Keeping track of all of that material requires some impressive computing grunt and clever coding, which is just what astrophysicists now have thanks to this latest simulation model. Already it'sÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
January 31, 2018
Led by principal investigator Volker Springel at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institutes for Astronomy (MPIA, Heidelberg) and Astrophysics (MPA, Garching), Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Flatiron Institute'sÃÂ ...
TASS
January 23, 2018
MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. An international team of scientists has identified seven previously unknown massive clusters of galaxies, in addition to the 12 known ones, as follows from a news release by the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Space Studies, obtained by TASS. Gallery. 15 photo. é filmpro.ruà...
Space Daily
January 21, 2018
The afterglow from the distant neutron-star merger detected last August has continued to brighten - much to the surprise of astrophysicists studying the aftermath of the massive collision that took place about 138 million light years away and sent gravitational waves rippling through the universe.
Space Daily
January 2, 2018
For astronomers, astrophysicists, planetary scientists, space enthusiasts and others with an eye for the night sky, 2018 is expected to bring a variety of exciting developments. With dozens of space missions and expeditions set to get under way in 2018, launch complexes around the globe will be busy.
The Indian Express
January 2, 2018
Astrophysicists have found that simulations of galaxy evolution must incorporate feedback from the black hole in order to reproduce the observed properties of galaxies. However, observational evidence of a connection between supermassive black holes and star formation has been lacking, until now.
Edgy Labs (blog)
December 22, 2017
Scientists believe that a far-off star has survived multiple supernovae events over the last two years. A bizarre phenomenon that calls into question what we know about the life-cycles of stars. Don't let the seemingly calm neighborhood of Earth fool you. If one sees our planet as peacefully located in theÃÂ ...
Hindu Business Line
December 21, 2017
Astrophysicists using radio telescopes, including the one located on the outskirts of Pune, may have resolved some nagging riddles, following the first-ever detection of gravitation waves in August this year, leading to the awarding of the 2017 Nobel Prize for physics to three US scientists. The remarkableÃÂ ...
Interesting Engineering
December 16, 2017
Astrophysicists Discovered a Possible Cause for the Cool Explosions in Astrophysical Jets. For years, these giant ... The universe is full of amazing and beautiful phenomena and astrophysicists and astronomers have looked to the stars for inspiration for thousands of years. Some of these events are hard orÃÂ ...
Science Daily
December 6, 2017
In their respective efforts to understand the universe and all it comprises, there is a telling gap between what cosmologists and astrophysicists study and how they study it: scale. Cosmologists typically focus on the large-scale properties of the universe as a whole, such as galaxies and intergalactic medium;ÃÂ ...
Nature.com
December 4, 2017
Astrophysicists who captured an image of the Big Bang's afterglow — and confirmed the standard model of cosmology — won a US$3-million Breakthrough Prize on 3 December. The team behind NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) provided key evidence backing the theory that theÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
December 31, 1999
Astrophysicists at MIPT have developed a model for testing a hypothesis about supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. The new model enables scientists to predict how much rotational energy a black hole loses when it emits beams of ionized matter known as astrophysical jets. The energyÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
Though they don't look like much, this blip is incredibly important to astrophysicists around the world who are trying to solve one of the biggest mysteries in science: the existence of dark matter. Scientists believe that dark matter makes up about a quarter of everything in the universe, but the tricky thing isÃÂ ...
BuzzFeed News
December 31, 1999
“This year will go down in the memories of astrophysicists as the year detecting cosmic objects by their gravitational wave signal became almost routine. It's really quite extraordinary that we went from the first detection being the biggest physics news of 2016 to subsequent detections in 2017 barely makingÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Updated | 2017 was a big year for gravitational wave science, which won this year's Nobel Prize and caught four new detections, including the first-ever detection of two merging neutron stars. But there are still signals astrophysicists believe should exist but that the American Laser InterferometerÃÂ ...
Cornell Chronicle
December 7, 2017
Twenty-three percent is exotic matter: dark mass that astrophysicists believe is made up of an as-yet-detected particle. And the remainder, 73 percent, is dark energy.” Since its inception in 2012, the Breakthrough Prize has awarded close to $200 million to honor key research in physics, the life sciences and ...
NOVA Next
December 7, 2017
They're also the most powerful, with gravity so strong it can trap light. And they're destructive, swallowing entire planets, even giant stars. Anything that falls into them vanishes…gone forever. Now, astrophysicists are realizing that black holes may be essential to how our universe evolved—their influence possibly leading to ...
Astronomy Magazine
December 7, 2017
However, if no experimental or analytical errors are found in either instance, astrophysicists could be facing a variance from the standard model of cosmology. So although further evaluation of the data disparities is required, the information presented by the WMAP team is recognized as a crucial element in ...
Science Daily
December 7, 2017
In their respective efforts to understand the universe and all it comprises, there is a telling gap between what cosmologists and astrophysicists study and how they study it: scale. Cosmologists typically focus on the large-scale properties of the universe as a whole, such as galaxies and intergalactic medium;Â ...
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
December 6, 2017
Astrophysicists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have probed the timescale of atmospheric retention on Proxima Centauri b (PCb), which orbits the nearest star to our solar system, some four light years away. A second study questions how long oceans could survive on “water worlds” — planets ...
Business Insider
December 5, 2017
On Sunday, the only visible Supermoon of 2017 cozied up to the Earth, appearing bigger and brighter than usual in the night sky. This Supermoon didn't just light up the night skies, it also ignited tempers online, as astrophysicists argued the moon may not have been living up to its "super" name. That didn't ...
The Hindu
November 25, 2017
The Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Imager (CZTI), an instrument to observe and image hard X-rays on board the Indian space observatory AstroSat, has consistently been making important observations since AstroSat's launch in 2015. The latest discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, is a polarization ...
Boulder Daily Camera
November 23, 2017
While physicists try to catch a glimpse of dark matter with detectors here on Earth, astrophysicists are hoping dark matter might be able to ...
Focus Taiwan News Channel
November 23, 2017
22 (CNA) Two astrophysicists were awarded the 2017 Franco-Taiwanese Scientific Grand Prize in Paris Wednesday for their collaboration on ...
Phys.Org
November 22, 2017
In 1998, a team of Australian and U.S. astrophysicists discovered the acceleration of the expansion of the universe, earning the Nobel Prize for ...
Los Angeles Times
November 21, 2017
Chosen by astronomers, astrophysicists, curators and art historians, the book paints a broad portrait of the ways human beings have studied, ...
WIRED
November 16, 2017
Yet as time wore on, astrophysicists began to realize that there's a lot more high-energy radiation streaming through the galaxy than they could explain. Just a year before Hooper started analyzing Fermi data, a gamma-ray detector in New Mexico called Milagro had found an abundance of super-energetic ...
Laboratory Equipment
November 14, 2017
These three facilities can look at the timing of the spinning dead pulsars – which act as indirect detectors astrophysicists can use.
Phys.Org
November 14, 2017
Astrophysicists from MSU (Russia) and colleagues from Italy and Russian Academy of Sciences have found the first observational evidence for ...
Quanta Magazine
November 14, 2017
A number of high-energy anomalies raised hopes that astrophysicists had seen their first direct glimpses of dark matter. New studies suggest a ...
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
November 1, 2017
Newest dark matter map hints at where astrophysics must go for breakthroughs. Three astrophysicists discuss how the new results are testing ...
Science Daily
October 31, 2017
The unveiling this summer of the most accurate cosmic picture ever taken of the distribution of dark matter has left astrophysicists feeling both ...
The Daily Barometer
October 30, 2017
Dr. Davide Lazzati is an associate professor of computational astrophysics and research. Dr. Lazzati accurately calculated and predicted some ...
The Daily Northwestern
October 30, 2017
Northwestern Physics and Astronomy Profs. Shane Larson and Vicky Kalogera both contributed to the discovery of the neutron star collision.
Quanta Magazine
October 30, 2017
In addition to watching for collisions using LIGO, astrophysicists have been busy developing creative ways to probe neutron stars from the ...
Princeton University
October 30, 2017
This snapshot of the explosion of a supernova in its first seconds, simulated by Princeton astrophysicist Adam Burrows and collaborators using ...
U.S. News & World Report
October 21, 2017
Other winners picking up their prize included Argentine comedians, the Hispanic Society of America museum and library, astrophysicists, South ...
Gears Of Biz
October 19, 2017
Astrophysicists have proved how the majority of elements such as gold ... Astrophysicists have now proved the latter after a gravitational wave ...
Edgy Labs (blog)
October 18, 2017
This previously undiscovered phenomenon is referred to as a 'kilonova', and it took astrophysicists in labs and observatories all over the world ...
Clemson Newsstand
October 6, 2017
PAWLEYS ISLAND, South Carolina — A team of Clemson University astrophysicists has visually confirmed that a small rock found in Melanie ...
Phys.Org
October 5, 2017
This illustration shows the orbit of comet K2 on its maiden voyage into the solar system. The Hubble Space Telescope observed K2 when it was ...
Pune Mirror
October 3, 2017
Stockholm: US astrophysicists Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for the discovery ...
Motherboard en_us
September 25, 2017
Before any of the particles we now know and love, such as protons and neutrons, could form, they melted away into what astrophysicists call ...
TrendinTech
September 24, 2017
Measuring something so big and so very far away is never going to be an easy feat. However, astrophysicists over at Moscow State University ...
Inverse
December 31, 1999
Now, astrophysicists at Brown University and Harvard University who study gravitational waves say these ripples in the fabric of space and time could help them investigate the possible existence of a very specific kind of black hole, one that hypothetically formed right after the Big Bang. The team's work on ...
