By confirming certain light-scattering dynamics first proposed a half-century ago, University of Nebraska–Lincoln physicists are casting fresh eyes on the universe-birthing fireworks ignited by the Big Bang nearly 14 billion years ago. With help from the ultra-intense lasers at Nebraska’s Extreme Light Laboratory and the ingenuity of colleagues at Brigham Young University, Husker researchers have ...
I’m sure most people have heard of the Big Bang Theory, and how that was the very beginning of the universe. Physicists Ahmed Farag Ali and Saurya Das are not so convinced. With their new model that has quantum correction terms that complement Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, it shows that the universe has existed forever. The model also takes into ...
It is believed that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled to launch in November, will be sensitive enough to observe the birth of galaxies directly during what is known as cosmic dawn. This is according to a study, led by researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge, published in the Monthly Notices of the ...
When it comes to matter, it’s not just protons, neutrons, and electrons that pique the interest of scientists the world over. These subatomic particles are said to be made up of something that is much tinier — quarks. Quarks and gluons “Like electrons and other leptons, quarks don’t seem to have any structure and appear ...
Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe’s oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of materials spewed from the Big Bang. The discovery of this approximately 13.5 billion-year-old tiny star means more stars with very low mass and very low metal content are likely out there — perhaps even the universe’s very ...
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