Sean McWilliams, an assistant professor at West Virginia University, has developed a mathematical method for calculating black hole properties from gravitational wave data. He has written a paper describing his method and posted it on the arXiv preprint server. The paper has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the Universe’s earliest galaxies were brighter than expected. The excess light is a by-product of the galaxies releasing incredibly high amounts of ionising radiation. The finding offers clues to the cause of the Epoch of Reionisation, a major cosmic event that transformed the universe from being mostly opaque to the brilliant starscape seen today. The new work appears in a paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Spinning stellar objects collapsing into black holes could help explain heavy elements’ origins
And where have they all gone?
Two interns are prototyping soft robots made using 3D printing and silicon.
Fictional crash tests the ways that disaster response and space agencies would deal with such a natural disaster
New method cuts through galaxies’ messy emissions, provides clearer window into dark matter, dark energy
Walter Alvarez’s discovery of the element iridium in the K-Pg boundary, and the discovery of the Chicxulub Crater led to the reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Space experts from several agencies failed to stop an asteroid fragment from wiping out New York City last week.
Astronomers still hope to catch a star going supernova and a bumpy neutron star, among others
