Imagine a mysterious force making up approximately 68% of everything that exists, yet remaining completely invisible and impossible to directly detect. This isn’t science fiction – it’s one of the greatest puzzles in modern physics, a cosmic enigma that’s keeping scientists awake at night and challenging everything we thought we knew about the universe. Dark ...
Every night sky looks calm, but it’s anything but. The universe is stretching, gently and relentlessly, turning yesterday’s constellations into a wider, thinner tapestry. Scientists have chased this mystery across a century, building clever tools to measure a cosmos that refuses to sit still. The surprise isn’t just that space expands; it’s that the more ...
They start as quiet monsters, swallowing light and time, and end as the most honest questions in physics. For decades, black holes were places where our equations went to hide; now they’re where we go looking for answers. New observations of early, oversized black holes and crisp gravitational-wave signals have forced scientists to rethink what ...
The Hubble tension, a long-standing puzzle in cosmology, arises from conflicting measurements of the universe’s expansion rate. A groundbreaking study proposes that the universe may rotate once every 500 billion years, offering a potential solution to this cosmic conundrum. This theory challenges conventional models and opens new avenues for understanding The Hubble Tension Explained The ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found one of the strangest things in the vast cosmic menagerie: a celestial owl staring back at us from 11 billion light-years away. This strange structure is not just any old galactic formation; it is known as the “Cosmic Owl.” It’s the result of two very rare ring ...
Behind clouds of interstellar dust, a cosmic drama is playing out deep in the southern constellation of Chamaeleon. The Chamaeleon I dark cloud is one of the closest places to Earth where stars are born. It is only 550 light-years away. In this “stellar nursery,” newborn stars break through the darkness and light up huge ...
Astronomers have been trying to fit the cosmic puzzle of how the universe changed from a dark, featureless void into a glittering expanse of stars and galaxies for decades. Now, a faint whisper from the dawn of time, a radio signal emitted just 100 million years after the Big Bang has given scientists an unheard-of ...
The universe shouldn’t exist at least, not in a form that allows life. Yet here we are, thinking, questioning, and marveling at the cosmos. The fundamental laws of physics appear fine-tuned with eerie precision. Alter any one of nature’s constant gravity, the speed of light, the mass of an electron even slightly, and stars wouldn’t ...
Maria Faith Saligumba
