In October 2022, an international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, observed the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded,...
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Researchers from the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) have helped to detect a remarkable gravitational-wave signal,...
Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron...
Despite their ancient ages, some stars orbiting the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole appear deceptively youthful. But unlike humans,...
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With 5,000 tiny robots in a mountaintop telescope, researchers can look 11 billion years into the past. The light from...
After two decades of work, scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and their collaborators...
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For the first time, astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the...
