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Jan 24, 2023

The Record for the Farthest Galaxy just got Broken Again, now just 250 million years after the Big Bang

Posted by in categories: cosmology, evolution

In a recent study that was sent to MNRAS, a group of researchers worked together to use the first batch of data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to find a candidate galaxy, CEERS-93316, that formed about 250 million years after the Big Bang and set a new record for redshift with a value of z = 16.7. This discovery is very exciting because it shows how good JWST is, even though it has only just started sending back its first set of data. The Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey, or CEERS, was made so that it could be used with JWST to take pictures.

“The past few weeks have been surreal, watching all the records that stood for a long time with Hubble be broken by JWST,” says Dr. Rebecca Bowler, who is an Ernest Rutherford Fellow at the University of Manchester, and a co-author on the study. “Finding a z = 16.7 galaxy candidate is an amazing feeling – it wasn’t something we were expecting from the early data.”

This new study talks about a dozen previous studies that measured objects up to redshifts z 10 using a mix of ground-based observations and the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope.

Jan 23, 2023

DECam Captures New Galactic Panorama that Shows Over 3 Billion of Celestial Objects

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Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey took two years to conclude.

Jan 23, 2023

Supermassive black holes may be bigger and more powerful than we previously knew

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A new study sheds light on the darkness of black holes at the center of galaxies.

Jan 23, 2023

A new model for dark matter

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics. It is clear that it must exist, because without dark matter, for example, the motion of galaxies cannot be explained. But it has never been possible to detect dark matter in an experiment.

Currently, there are many proposals for new experiments: They aim to detect dark directly via its scattering from the constituents of the atomic nuclei of a detection medium, i.e., protons and neutrons.

A team of researchers—Robert McGehee and Aaron Pierce of the University of Michigan and Gilly Elor of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany—has now proposed a new candidate for dark matter: HYPER, or “HighlY Interactive ParticlE Relics.”

Jan 23, 2023

New Research Could Link Evolution of Complex Life to Genetic “Dark Matter”

Posted by in categories: biological, chemistry, cosmology, evolution, genetics, neuroscience, physics

Octopuses have fascinated scientists and the public with their remarkable intelligence, from using tools to engaging in creative play, problem-solving, and even escaping from aquariums. Now, their cognitive abilities may provide significant insight into understanding the evolution of complex life and cognition, including the human brain.

An international team of researchers from Dartmouth College and the Max Delbrück Center (MDC) in Germany has published a study in the journal Science Advances.

<em>Science Advances</em> is a peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal that is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). It was launched in 2015 and covers a wide range of topics in the natural sciences, including biology, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics.

Jan 23, 2023

Dark energy ‘chameleon trap’ wins £100,000 prize for Nottingham scientist

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Ingeniously simple lab experiment led by Prof Clare Burrage recognised by Blavatnik awards.

Jan 22, 2023

Fine Tuning Explained? Multiverses and Cellular Automata on JSTOR

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Year 2013 face_with_colon_three


Francisco José Soler Gil, Manuel Alfonseca, Fine Tuning Explained? Multiverses and Cellular Automata, Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, Vol. 44, No. 1 (July 2013), pp. 153–172.

Jan 21, 2023

Scientists Find ‘Evidence’ of Another Universe Before Our Own

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Scientists find traces of black holes from other universes in the night sky. This shows that there have been other universes.

New Scientist says that the idea is based on a thing called “conformal cyclic cosmology” (CCC). It means that our universe didn’t start with a single Big Bang. Instead, it goes through cycles of Big Bangs and shrinking.

Even though most of the universe would be destroyed from one cycle to the next, these scientists say that some electromagnetic radiation might make it through the process. Their research results have been posted on arXiv.

Jan 20, 2023

Ripples in fabric of universe may reveal start of time

Posted by in categories: cosmology, nuclear energy, physics

Scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to the beginning of everything we know. The researchers say they can better understand the state of the cosmos shortly after the Big Bang by learning how these ripples in the fabric of the universe flow through planets and the gas between the galaxies.

“We can’t see the directly, but maybe we can see it indirectly if we look at how gravitational waves from that time have affected matter and radiation that we can observe today,” said Deepen Garg, lead author of a paper reporting the results in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Garg is a graduate student in the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics, which is based at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

Garg and his advisor Ilya Dodin, who is affiliated with both Princeton University and PPPL, adapted this technique from their research into , the process powering the sun and stars that scientists are developing to create electricity on Earth without emitting greenhouse gases or producing long-lived radioactive waste. Fusion scientists calculate how move through plasma, the soup of electrons and that fuels fusion facilities known as tokamaks and stellarators.

Jan 20, 2023

Scientists Find Imprint of Universe That Existed Before the Big Bang

Posted by in categories: cosmology, existential risks

Circa 2014 face_with_colon_three


Researchers spar over the meaning of findings and the precise timing of doomsday clock.