‘In the News’ Archives

You’re looking at an incredible image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3137, captured by the … “Hubble Captures a Starry Spiral Cosmic Neighbor”

Webb has shown us that there were extremely powerful quasars, even early on in the … “How Super-Quasars Shaped Early Galaxies and Confounded the JWST”

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the cosmos, yet … “Strange ripples in space may point to dark matter near merging black holes”

For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment … “The Universe may have begun inside a black hole, not a Big Bang”

Spacetime is often described as the stage on which the universe unfolds, a four-dimensional blend … “Physicists rewrite Einstein’s equations to define spacetime evolution”

The Sun is relatively calm and steady today, but it’s believed that it was much … “Young Sun-like Stars Are Not As Menacing As Thought”

Here is the famous Sombrero Galaxy, captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the … “DECam’s New Image of the Sombrero Galaxy: A Portrait of Ancient Mergers”

Stars form out of nebulae in a range of sizes from giants to tiny dwarfs … “The Universe Builds Stars by the Book”

Where does the Milky Way begin and end? It’s not a simple question because it … “Astronomers Find the Edge of the Milky Way’s Star-Forming Disc”

Astronomers continue to find supermassive black holes at earlier and earlier times in the Universe, … “Is the Earliest Supermassive Black Hole Mystery Solved?”