Tag Archives: cosmology

The godlike vision granted by our far-flung sensors.

Cosmologists are finding circles in the sky�specifically, in the pattern of microwave background radiation, the echo of the Big Bang. Some think they're traces of a time before time; others argue that they're the "bruises" left by collisions with universes other than our own.

An animated tour of the known universe gives a glimpse of cosmic structure�and hints at our limited view.

A new effort of the citizen-science effort Zooniverse, the Milky Way Project brings elements of gaming and social media to astronomy.

True story. Indiana University cosmologist Nikodem Poplawski observed the activity of particles entering a black hole and apparently Einstein might have been wrong about that whole general relativity theory thing, at least the part that says black holes are singularities. According to Poplawski, instead of matter reaching infinite density while going through a black hole, the particles rebound and expand ...