Today, Feynman diagrams are used in calculating every fundamental interaction spanning the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces, including in high-energy and low-temperature/condensed conditions. The electromagnetic interactions, shown here, are all governed by a single force-carrying particle: the photon, and can...
A black hole is famous for absorbing matter and having an event horizon from which nothing can escape,and for cannibalizing its neighbors. But there isn’t any ‘sucking’ going on to cause it, simply the disruption of matter and an occasional...
The open star cluster NGC 290, imaged by Hubble, is on the younger side of star clusters, with an estimated age of 60 million years. Even at such a young age, there are no stars within it that are 10...
The idea that the forces, particles, and interactions that we see today are only part of a grander, larger-dimensional structure is compelling and intriguing, but also tightly constrained. If there are extra dimensions in the Universe, there are severe limitations...
Galaxies identified in the eXtreme Deep Field image can be broken up into nearby, distant, and ultra-distant components, with Hubble only revealing the galaxies it’s capable of seeing in its wavelength ranges and at its optical limits. The changing populations...
By mapping out the three-dimensional positions of galaxies over a large volume of the Universe, scientists within the DESI collaboration have uncovered some (but not overwhelming) suggestive evidence that the strength of dark energy has weakened (and is weakening) over...
The Sun is the source of the overwhelming majority of light, heat, and energy on Earth’s surface, and is powered by nuclear fusion. But without the quantum rules that govern the Universe at a fundamental level, fusion wouldn’t be possible...
The conventional way we display annual calendars, at left, requires us to examine each month separately, either relegating the full year to a tiny font on a single page or onto 12 separate pages. Instead, the one-page calendar, at right,...
This image shows a slice of the matter distribution in the Universe as simulated by the GiggleZ complement to the WiggleZ survey. There are many cosmic structures that seem to repeat on progressively smaller scales, but does that imply that...
It’s not only the gravity from galaxies in a cluster that reveal dark matter, but the ejected, intracluster stars actually trace it out.Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! » Source link...
