The newest find recovers the earliest merger in galactic history: just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. Here's what we know today.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
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Recent evidence could indicate the Universe doesn't expand evenly. Does that change our expected fate: Big Rip, Big Crunch, or Heat Death?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
1859's Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Time isn't the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
We assume there's no preferred frame of reference in the Universe, and that light behaves the same in all directions. What if we're wrong?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
We've now found many "conjoined" objects in the asteroid and Kuiper belts, including the first contact trinary, Nysa. What does it allContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
On Earth's surface, we accelerate at 1g: 9.8m/s². In orbit, the acceleration is only slightly less. So why, then, are astronautsContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn't instant.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Today, the world's largest operating optical telescope is 10.4 meters in diameter. These 3 facilities will lead astronomy's nextContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »