A team of scientists has discovered traces of oxygen in a galaxy located billions of years away. To be precise, the galaxy in which the oldest molecule of oxygen has been discovered is located 13.1 billion light years away.
History has been created yet again. A team of scientists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves Observatory (LIGO) has discovered signs of gravitational waves. The breakthrough has been achieved for the second time in 2016.
In a paper recently published in peer-reviewed Physical Review Letters, Stephen Hawking and his co-authors suggested that black holes may potentially lead to another universe. The paper contradicts the idea that black holes have ‘no hair’ saying that a so-called ‘halo of hair’ captures low-energy quantum excitations.
The universe is expanding and it is one of the facts about the cosmic space that probably everyone knows by now. In fact, the universe has been expanding since the Bing Bang happened more than 13.5 billion years ago.
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson opines that the universe is probably just a huge simulation, which contains everything we know of as reality. How far could this be true?
Scientists are studying the chemical composition of dust beyond our solar system. It might get homogenized by interstellar space 'stew', they surmise.
Experts have located a new star with a record variation period of about 69 years.
The galaxy EGS8p7 is 13.2 billion years old. Its discovery could get scientists to rethink theories explaining early universe post Big Bang.
Researchers spotted EGS8p7 which is the oldest and farthest known galaxy from Earth.
Researchers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggested that in a generation or so we would be able to signs of life on distant planets.
Hawking was delivering a talk at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm when he mentioned that information may not be destroyed by a black hole.
A new study claims that energy from galaxies is just about half as much as it was two billion years ago, indicating that the universe is ageing and will eventually exhaust all energy within.
The study however claims that such black holes may not succeed in consuming the universe.
Until recently, the amounts of lithium known to exist in the universe was not explainable by direct observations. Astronomers were also unaware why younger stars had more lithium than older stars.
Discovery of five supermassive black holes recently has led astronomers to believe that there could be millions of them across the universe.
