29 February 2016
Missing matter still lost, as Fast Radio Burst not quite what it seems say researchers
... observations. Now however, further analysis of FRB 150418 by Williams and Berger at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has led to the suggestion that this signal is not as Keane and his team suggest, but that...
21 March 2016
Using gravitational waves to search for Population III stars
... with the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO), a completely new window to investigate astrophysical processes, which are otherwise invisible to observations in the electromagnetic spectrum, has been opened. Now...
22 March 2016
Astronomers catch a supernova shock wave in visible light for the first time
..., Earth's orbit about our sun would fit comfortably within these colossal stars," said Peter Garnavich, an astrophysics professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana who led the analysis efforts. These types of supernovae are...
13 April 2016
The mystery of neutrino mass to be solved by a calcium isotope
... discovery over 60 years ago, the neutrino has held a long fascination with scientists due to its importance in astrophysical processes, however despite being produced in extremely abundant quantities – from the Sun alone, calculations suggest that...
