Why a giant ‘cold spot’ in the cosmic microwave background has long puzzled astronomers
by The remaining light from the young universe is seriously flawed, and we don’t know how to fix it. It is the cold spot. It’s too …
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The ‘wiggles’ of energy waves over Earth could hold the history of the universe
By measuring how energy waves are moving in the sky above Earth, scientists have created a way to tackle the history of our 13.8 billion …
James Webb Space Telescope finds dwarf galaxies have enough holes to reshape the entire early universe
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and predicted an effect at Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago to discover that small galaxies …
The South Pole Telescope has a ‘treasure map’ of the secrets of dark matter
Ancient cosmic light that has uniformly filled the universe since about 400,000 years after the Big Bang could act as a treasure map that leads …
A surprising gamma-ray discovery could shed light on cosmic mysteries
Astronomers have discovered an unexpected and unexplained feature outside our Milky Way galaxy radiating high-energy light known as gamma rays. The team behind the discovery, …
Do we live in a vast vacuum? It could solve the puzzle of the expansion of the universe
This article was originally published by The conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Tutorial & Insights. Indranil Banik is a Postdoctoral …