Astrophysics and cosmology Archives – Page 10 of 58

The foundations of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope

Astronomers scale new summit

The world’s largest optical/near-infrared telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, will bring mysteries such as dark energy into focus.

MAGIC spots epic gamma-ray burst

TeV photons from distant gamma-ray burst provide evidence for synchrotron self-Compton process.

A variant of the black-hole accretion disk seen in the film Interstellar

Building Gargantua

Oliver James describes the visual effects which produced the black hole in Interstellar.

TAUP tackles topical questions

The 16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics was held in Toyama, Japan from 9–13 September.

The galaxy that feeds three times per day

Astronomers puzzled by galaxy that emits strong bursts of X-rays every nine hours.

Gian Giudice, Teresa Montaruli, Eckhard Elsen and Job de Kleuver

A new centre for astroparticle theory

On 10 July, CERN and the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) founded a new research centre for astroparticle physics theory called EuCAPT.

Grappling with dark energy

Adam Riess discusses intriguing discrepancies in the value of the Hubble constant.

Supercomputer-generated image of a galaxy using hydrodynamical simulations based on “f(R) gravity”

Galaxies thrive on new physics

Theorists at Durham University simulated the universe using hydrodynamical simulations in which a scalar field enhances gravitational forces in low-density regions.