The last chapter in the history of the universe is expected to be rather pale. Physicists believe that countless billions of years from now, after all the stars have been burned out, the universe will be a cold, dark space where nothing of importance happens, or even can happen. As …
Read More »Artistic perception of a dark brown dwarf, which could resemble hypothetical black dwarfs, which predict to exist in the distant future. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech “This is the way the world ends,” TS Elliot said in his famous poem, “not with a slap, but with a trick.” These days, scientists …
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(Newser) – Do you want to escape? Now you can see how far “really” is. Based on 20 years of research, scientists have created a 3D map of the universe that spans 11 billion years and covers more than 2 million quasars and galaxies, while shedding light on a couple …
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Artistic conception: the supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of hot gas and the X-ray corona (shown in bluish white). The pink streak is the debris falling into the black hole: the shattered remains of a runaway star. Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech Two years ago, astronomers were confused as …
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It seems that the universe has a strange sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has rushed around the world, a completely different corona about 100 million light-years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared. For the first time, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have seen how the corona of a supermassive …
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