On 14 September 2015, the world changed for those of us who had spent years preparing for the day when we would detect gravitational waves. Our overarching goal was to directly detect gravitational ra...
ago, numerous black-hole candidates have been found. These consist of both low-mass black holes, which have several times the mass of the Sun, and supermassive black holes (SMBHs), which are billions ...
17th edition of the International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM 2017) held at Utrecht University in the Netherlands
The temporal distribution of solar flares is correlated with the positions of the Earth, Mercury and Venus.
Launched in 2014, the Distributed Electronic Cosmic-ray Observatory (DECO) enables Android smartphone cameras to detect cosmic rays. In response to the increasing number of events being recorded, howe...
During the last two decades the WMAP and Planck satellites have produced detailed maps of the density distribution of the universe when it was only 380,000 years old – the moment electrons and proto...
The reason why some stars are born in pairs while others are born singly has long puzzled astronomers. But a new study suggests that no special conditions are required: all stars start their lives as ...
(ESA) gave the official go-ahead for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which will comprise a trio of satellites to detect gravitational waves in space. LISA is the third mission in ESA’...
Massive stars are traditionally expected to end their life cycle by triggering a supernova, a violent event in which the stellar core collapses into a neutron star, potentially followed by a further c...
Gravitational-lensing measurements indicate that clusters of galaxies are surrounded by large halos of dark matter. By studying the distribution and colour of galaxies inside galaxy clusters using dat...
