"...this work can enable a large number of science projects throughout the research community."

Scientists will use a supercomputer to simulate the universe

Cosmological Cheat Sheet

Physicists at the Argonne National Lab are about to use the Mira supercomputer to simulate the universe, perhaps helping them find dark energy and matter.

Scientists Will Use a Supercomputer to Simulate the Universe

The simulation will be the basis for countless future studies.

Experiment to detect dark energy turns up nothing

Thank You, Next

A new experiment looking for dark energy came back with nothing, helping scientists narrow down future searches for the mysterious force.

Experiment to Detect Dark Energy Turns Up Nothing

Now scientists can rule out several explanations for how it works.

It's letting them study the Sun in a more "hands-on" way.

Scientists built a ball of plasma they call a "mini-Sun"

Twinkle, Little Star

Physicists built a "mini-sun" that's helping them study solar winds and why the Sun occasionally ejects blasts of plasma into space.

Scientists Built a Ball of Plasma They Call a “Mini-Sun”

It's easier than studying the real Sun up close.

"Rather than being a long-awaited triumph, the LHC has demonstrated that particle physicists' arguments that their colliders would help answer the big questions were wrong."

Physicist: maybe we don't need an expensive new collider

Spending Spree

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues that scientists need to justify the billions of dollars their experiments cost, like on a new collider

Physicist: Maybe We Don’t Need an Expensive New Collider

Sabine Hossenfelder says the bar for approving several-billion-dollar projects should be higher.

"...the jury is still out on whether there is an immediate and compelling reason to believe that there is something fundamentally flawed in our current model of the universe."

New Hubble data breaks scientists' understanding of the universe

Flawed Science

An attempt to reconcile the discrepancy among Hubble Constant calculations only complicated the matter, raising questions about our models of the universe.

New Hubble Data Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of the Universe

A new attempt to find the universe's age revealed troubling flaws.

"It's an exciting result which could be used to advance the emerging field of quantum computing and lead to new types of imaging."

Scientists capture first-ever image of quantum entanglement

Spotted

For the first time, scientists managed to capture and image with photographic evidence that two photons were linked by quantum entanglement.

Scientists Capture First-Ever Image of Quantum Entanglement

The image paves the way for tools to analyze quantum behavior.

It gives scientists a clear illustration of both general and special relativity at work.

This might be the strangest black hole yet

Cosmic Light Show

A distant black hole is surrounded by a much larger disk of spacestuff than scientists expected, giving them a rare glimpse of special relativity in action.

This Might Be the Strangest Black Hole Yet

The cosmic monster could help test Einstein's theories of relativity.

Oh god they're wearing Airpods, they can't hear us.

Two supermassive black holes are on a devastating crash course

Brace For Impact

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Devastating Crash Course

"It's a major embarrassment for astronomy that we don't know if supermassive black holes merge."

"Our research definitely does not mean that General Relativity is wrong, but it does show that it does not have to be the only way to explain gravity's role in the evolution of the universe."

New "Chameleon Theory" could explain dark energy, how galaxies formed

Alternative Explanations

Chameleon Theory provides an alternative explanation for galaxy formation and the universe's expansion from Einstein's General Relativity.

New “Chameleon Theory” Could Explain Dark Energy, How Galaxies Formed

Chameleon Theory provides a possible alternative to General Relativity.

"We found that the [radio burst] was located away from the galaxy's core, out in the 'galactic suburbs.'"

Astronomers traced a mysterious radio burst to a distant galaxy

Cosmic Stalker

Astronomers traced a mysterious, fleeting radio burst from space back to the galaxy from which it originated for the first time.

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