The big bang poses a big question: if it was indeed the cataclysm that blasted our universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago, what sparked it? Three researchers at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario explored a new idea about what might have come before the big bang in a Scientific American cover story called The […]
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Milky Way galaxy may be lighter than previously thought
A new computer simulation has calculated that the mass of our own Milky Way galaxy is about half that of the Andromeda galaxy, one of our closest partners despite previous research. Using the motion and position of “satellite galaxies” researchers have showing that the Milky Way galaxy has a smaller mass than the Andromeda galaxy. The […]
High-energy radio-burst comes from outside of our galaxy
A team of scientists observed a ‘fast radio burst’ using the Puerto Rican Aceribo radio telescope coming from outside our galaxy, a new study shows. This confirms previous observations from the Parkes radio telescope in Australia and discard the hypothesis that these would have originated near Earth. These high-energy radio bursts last only a few […]
