More like the start of what will be the biggest telescope on Earth. The first council meeting of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory has actioned plans that will lead to the biggest telescope on Earth being assembled over the coming decade. The SKA telescope will comprise a vast formation of radio receivers. These will be…
Month: February 2021
NASA finds ‘Lost Galaxy’ shining out of Virgo’s bosom
Like our home galaxy, The Lost Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy: a vast swirl of stars with a distinct bar structure at its center. Less-poetic scientists know this galaxy as NGC 4535, one of the largest of the 2,000-or-so galaxies in the Virgo Cluster located about 50 million light-years from Earth. When viewed through…
Mysterious ‘kick’ just after the Big Bang may have created dark matter
New research suggests a mysterious “kick” in the early universe may have lead to the creation of dark matter. new research hypothesizes that early in the universe, there was a mysterious “kick” that produced more matter than antimatter, leading to today’s imbalance. And that imbalance may have also led to the creation of dark matter,…