Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have developed physics-based models suggesting that dark energy could be changing over time. Dark energy, the mysterious force causing the universe to ...
The UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a research program in modern cosmology – an entirely new field of research at the university. The new program builds upon the ...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Dark energy has been modern physics’ most successful placeholder, a theoretical force invented to ...
Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt by Anna Von Mertens. MIT Press, 2024 ($34.95) Fans of Hidden Figures and The Glass Universe will appreciate Anna Von Mertens ...
In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the existence of galaxies beyond the Milky Way. This discovery, aided by telescopes ...
In the history of science few developments have been more important than the advent of the new heliocentric cosmology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Whereas most of the ancient Greeks and ...
Princeton University professor emeritus and 1962 graduate alumnus James Peebles has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology." "This year's prize ...
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