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A cosmic gorilla effect could blind the detection of aliens

A well-known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed that when an observer focuses on counting the passes, he does not detect if someone crosses the stage disguised as a gorilla. According to researchers, something similar could be happening to us when we try to discover intelligent non-earthly signals, which perhaps manifest themselves in dimensions that escape our perception, such as the unknown dark matter and energy.

April 10, 2018 Read more

Tiny distortions in universe's oldest light reveal strands in cosmic web

Researchers map the network of filaments connecting the universe's visible matter.

April 10, 2018 Read more

The largest catalog ever published of very high energy gamma ray sources in the galaxy

The HESS international collaboration has published the results of fifteen years of gamma ray observations of the Milky Way. Its telescopes installed in Namibia have studied populations of pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants, as well as microquasars, never before detected in gamma rays.

April 9, 2018 Read more

Hunting for dark matter in the smallest galaxies in the Universe

Astrophysicists have created a new method to measure the amount of dark matter at the centre of tiny dwarf galaxies.

April 6, 2018 Read more

Gamma-ray burst comparison reveals a new standard candle for astronomers

Blasts of gamma rays could give astronomers a way to measure the Universe?s first billion years.

April 6, 2018 Read more

Dead star circled by light

MUSE data points to isolated neutron star beyond our galaxy.

April 5, 2018 Read more

Anticipating the dangers of space

Researchers use supercomputers to estimate radiation risks for low Earth orbits.

April 3, 2018 Read more

Researchers uncover the farthest star ever seen

More than halfway across the universe, researchers have spotted an enormous blue star, nicknamed Icarus. It is the farthest individual star ever seen.

April 2, 2018 Read more

First age-map of the heart of the Milky Way

The first large-scale age-map of the Milky Way shows that a period of star formation lasting around 4 billion years created the complex structure at the heart of our galaxy.

April 2, 2018 Read more

Decades of research identify source of galaxy-sized stream of gas

By identifying the chemical makeup of the gas, known as the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream, the researchers identified one branch as coming from the Small Magellanic Cloud.

March 23, 2018 Read more

Hubble solves cosmic 'whodunit' with interstellar forensics

On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding-and only the Hubble Space Telescope can see who's winning.

March 22, 2018 Read more

TRAPPIST-1 planets provide clues to the nature of habitable worlds

New software, called ExoPlex, allowed researchers to combine all of the available information about the TRAPPIST-1 system, including the chemical makeup of the star, rather than being limited to just the mass and radius of individual planets.

March 20, 2018 Read more

Cosmologists create largest simulation of galaxy formation

A multi-institutional team gives the cosmology community a world-class simulation to study how the universe formed.

March 19, 2018 Read more

'Oumuamua likely came from a binary star system

New research finds that 'Oumuamua, the rocky object identified as the first confirmed interstellar asteroid, very likely came from a binary star system.

March 19, 2018 Read more

Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star

Signals suggest black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up.

March 19, 2018 Read more

The limit on the radii of neutron stars tightened

The observation of gravitational waves and light from a merging neutron-star binary system has allowed scientists to tighten constraints on the radius of a neutron star.

March 16, 2018 Read more

Double or nothing: Astronomers rethink quasar environment

Astronomers found that quasars don't tend to reside in protoclusters; but if there is one quasar in a protocluster, there is likely a second nearby. This result raises doubts about the relation between protoclusters and quasars.

March 13, 2018 Read more

The occurrence of magnetism in the universe

Precession sufficient to generate a magnetic field.

March 12, 2018 Read more