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Starlight Could Really Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes
What if the universe is a giant alien chatroom, and we just can't understand it?
How an Earth-Sized Telescope Images Supermassive Black Holes
Ziri Younsi, a member of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, explains how scientists managed to photograph a black hole across 55 million light years.
The Universe Is a Giant Donut That We Live Inside, New Research Suggests
The idea that the universe has a 3D torus shape ties in to some pretty far-out stuff, like the CIA’s 1980s Gateway report on psychic phenomena.
What Scientists Have Learned from Hidden Ripples in Spacetime
MIT astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala talks about the discovery of gravitational waves—and everything that has followed—on Motherboard’s “Space Show.”
A Structure In Deep Space Is So Giant It's Challenging Standard Physics
The Giant Arc is a newly-discovered structure spanning 3.3 billion light years, and it's challenging our understanding of the universe.
Vast Strands In the Cosmic Web That Connects the Universe Are Spinning, Scientists Find
The largest spinning objects in the universe are filled with galaxies, and the finding hints that things in the cosmos may be far more dynamically connected than previously imagined.
Scientists Have Observed an Unprecedented Burst of Energy from Space
A gamma-ray burst observed in August 2019 has smashed records and revealed unexpected inconsistencies in models of how massive stars die.
Scientists Discover Huge 'Voids' In the Cosmic Web Connecting the Universe
A new map of the dark matter web that connects our universe is the largest of its kind, and is part of a huge new batch of papers about the universe's structure.
'Dark Sirens' In Space Can Solve a Huge Mystery In Spacetime, Scientists Propose
Ripples in spacetime caused by black holes colliding in darkness could help scientists clock the expansion of the universe.
Scientists Discover Huge and Mysterious Jellyfish-Shaped Structure In Space
The gigantic plasma structure, known as 'USS Jellyfish,' is more than one million light years across and poses a series of bizarre questions to astronomers.
Scientists Directly Manipulated Antimatter With a Laser In Mind-Blowing First
The direct manipulation of antimatter will open up "unthinkable" possibilities in examining the fundamental makeup of our reality, scientists say.
NASA Is Launching a $10 Billion 'Time Machine'
The James Webb Telescope will peer farther back into the universe's history than ever before and is the "ultimate time machine," scientists say.