First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

A sweeping cosmic census from the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled nearly 1,700 galaxy groups—marking the deepest and ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

Dozens of 'wandering' black holes could be tumbling through our galaxy right now, new simulations hint. Their existence could ...

Instead, evolution is a special (and perhaps inevitable) case of a more general principle that governs the universe. According to this principle, entities are selected because they are richer in a ...

In a Universe that was only 700 million years old, long before Earth even formed, something unexpected happened. A massive ...

As the universe expanded and cooled, the QGP gradually condensed into the atomic nuclei we recognize today. Schematic of cosmic evolution. (Image from 2013 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 454 012051) (click on ...

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