In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska made a presentation showing interesting things while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She began to see very strange shapes that could not easily fit into any known type of to-budget. Of those, labeled by Anna WTF?, Was a picture of a haunted …
Read More »The Ci Resibo Telescope has suffered a fatal collapse, shattering it
The famous Are Resibo Observatory Telescope in Puerto Rico, which was once starring in the James Bond film, crashed on Tuesday when its 900-ton receiver sank 450 feet (140 meters) on a radio dish below the platform. Engineers recently warned of the dire state of the giant constitution, and the …
Read More »An astronomer has explored the universe for a possible message from its creator
The universe is a mysterious place. We don’t know why it is, and there are so many unanswered questions about how it is. But what if it was created on purpose by an intelligent entity? Is there a way we can find it? In 2005, a pair of physicists proposed …
Read More »Physicists observe trippy ‘vortex rings’ in magnetic material for the first time
You can also find vortex rings wherever you have liquids. Now, scientists have found the art of the vortex interesting somewhere – inside a small column made of magnetic material, the gadolinium-cobalt intermetallic compound GDCO2. If you’ve seen smoke rings, or bubble rings under water, you’ve seen vortex rings: a …
Read More »Astronomers solve dark matter mystery by preserving our galaxy formation models
A tiny, mysterious galaxy 44 million light-years away is finally producing its secrets. Last year turned out to be a shockingly low amount of dark matter, which posed a significant challenge to our models of the Galaxy NGC 1052-DF4A Galaxy formation. Those models still live another day. According to new …
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