Scientists may have found the background ripples of the universe

Posted on 19/01/2021 by Engadget

Scientists may have identified the gravitational waves that make up some of the universe’s background, not just those coming from unusual events like black hole collisions. New Atlas reports that the NANOGrav research team has discovered a “strong si...

MIT researchers have built the most precise atomic clock to date

Posted on 17/12/2020 by Engadget

MIT researchers have built what they say is the most precise atomic clock to date. Their approach could help scientists explore questions such as the effect of gravity on the passage of time and whether time changes as the universe gets older. More a...

Astronomers are puzzled by a mysterious dead star

Posted on 24/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

On August 14th, 2019, the International LIGO-Virgo Collaboration -- an array of antennae in the US and Italy -- detected odd gravitational waves. The readings indicated that an object with a mass 2.6 times that of the sun was gobbled up by a black ho...

Two dead, dancing stars challenge astronomers’ expectations

Posted on 25/07/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Stars still have plenty of surprises despite (or perhaps, because of) advances in astronomy. Researchers using Caltech's Zwicky Transient Facility have discovered a binary white dwarf system 8,000 light-years away, ZTF J1539+5027, where the two dead...

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Scientists may have found the background ripples of the universe

MIT researchers have built the most precise atomic clock to date

Astronomers are puzzled by a mysterious dead star

Two dead, dancing stars challenge astronomers’ expectations