A cosmological simulation study by researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically revealed, for the first time, how the interaction ...

From ROSAT’s long-archived X-ray data emerged Quipu—a 1.4-billion-light-year cosmic filament containing 68 galaxy clusters and 200 quadrillion solar masses. This colossal structure now challenges, ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been defined more by silence than discovery, but that balance ...

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Our corner of the universe looks tidy at first glance. But pull back, and patterns begin to surface that stretch across billions of light-years. New mapping work hints that our own galaxy belongs to a ...

An artistic illustration of the mechanism proposed by Professor Stefano Profumo where quantum effects near the rapidly expanding cosmic horizon after the Big Bang gravitationally generate dark matter ...

ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a novel approach to manipulate the spacetime metric g μν by employing gauge-transformed optical soliton beams to generate gravitational solitons, enabling a toroidal time ...

A new AI-powered method is changing how scientists measure the universe. Developed by researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their partners, this technique offers a far more accurate way to ...

Astronomers have explained how a galaxy cluster maintains its heat, despite emitting X-rays that cool the hot gas at its center. The group discovered the existence of a fast-moving, high-temperature ...

The largest cosmic structure ever observed by astronomers is revealing its biggest cosmic secrets yet, with a little help from powerful gamma-ray bursts. The most energetic explosions observed in our ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our noses all this time. Models of how the universe has evolved since the Big ...

The Simons Observatory (SO), a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large ...