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Dark matter's secret address revealed? Scientists say it may be hiding in fifth dimension; here's what the new theory says about one of the universe's biggest mysteriesA new study proposes dark matter resides in a hidden extra dimension. This hidden dimension may naturally align particle masses, creating d...
350 years later Newton's Law of Gravity just got put to the ultimate test — here's how it didNewton’s Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 billion light-yea...
What Would You Actually See If You Fell Toward a Black Hole?Falling into a black hole presents a bizarre cosmic experience. From afar, an observer sees time slow and light redshift. Inside, spacetime...
The Star That Exploded Twice: How Gravitational Lensing Made a Supernova ReappearA distant supernova appeared to explode twice, baffling astronomers. This cosmic event was explained by Einstein's theory of general relati...
Big Bang Thought of the Day by Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs, “The Big Bang made the universe explode into existence. The Higgs boson made it stay.” How Peter Higgs’ “God Particle” settled decades of competing universe theoriesBig Bang Thought of the Day by Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs, “The Big Bang made the universe explode into existence. The Higgs boson made it ...
The universe's darkest mysteries are coming into focusThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, equipped with the largest digital camera, is poised to conduct an unprecedented 10-year astronomica...
2021: A year physicists asked, ‘What lies beyond the Standard Model?'In 2021, physicists around the world ran a number of experiments that probed the Standard Model. Teams measured basic parameters of the mod...
This light-sensing camera with more than 1,000 sensors can detect signs of alien lifeConsidered as one of the highest-performance cameras ever, it can also detect elusive dark matter.
Scientists discover most distant super massive black holeFor black holes to become so large in the early universe, astronomers speculate there must have been special conditions to allow rapid grow...
Physicists hoping to see exotic stuff when the Large Hadron Collider wakes up from slumberIn 2012, inside the LHC under the Alps Mountains, physicists raised the temperature to 5.5 trillion degrees centigrade by smashing together...