October 2020
Learning from alternative universes
... spawns a new parallel universe with which we cannot interact. Second, there is the notion of ‘multiverses’ in astronomy and cosmology, which predicts that there could be an infinite set of universes like ours with slightly different physical laws...
03 May 2017
Milky Way dark matter still as elusive as ever
... Mauro from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC. "Instead, we have identified a population... Eric Charles, a Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) researcher, who contributed to the new analysis....
08 January 2016
Second Annual Buchalter Cosmology Prize awarded
...first and third places in this year's competition. The Buchalter Cosmology Prize was established in 2014. It is an annual prize...and Tim Koslowski to explore one of the most puzzling aspects of cosmology – the nature of time. The laws of physics do not...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... on-ground. Euclid combines several techniques of investigation, or cosmological probes, in a very large survey of the extragalactic ...the mission will produce Euclid will be ESA’s next cosmology mission in the quest for a better understanding of dark...
29 February 2016
Missing matter still lost, as Fast Radio Burst not quite what it seems say researchers
... far from conclusive and further research is clearly needed to test if these enigmatic signals really could be used as cosmological standard candles and hence help pinpoint the location of gravitational waves for example or if they can be explained...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... life as we know it. Stars also link apparently disparate branches of physics, from the microscopic quantum world to cosmological general relativity. Binary stars are particularly crucial to our understanding of the Universe on all these scales. They...
