Science news articles about 'visible universe'

  • New Model Says the Cosmos Is At Least 250 Times Larger Than the Visible Universe

    ... in a year, so ostensibly it would seem the visible universe is contained to a radius of 14 billion ... analysis says its at least 250 times larger than the visible universe. Which is really, really big. But it's not actually ...
  • Deep sea methane scavengers captured

    ... Million times more microbial cells than stars in the visible universe, accounting for more than 90 percent of the Earth's biomass. Yet, we have little idea what most of these bacteria ...
  • Radio astronomers detect 'baby quasar' near the edge of the visible Universe

    An international group of radio astronomers has found an unexpected morphology in the most distant radio quasar ever. This was done using the world's most sensitive network of radio telescopes called ...
  • NASA satellite sees oldest-ever gamma-ray burst

    ... , Md. "It's coming to us from near the edge of the visible universe." Because light moves at finite ... age. "This burst accompanies the death of a star from one of the universe's early generations," says Patricia Schady of the Mullard ...
  • Scientists detect cosmic 'dark flow' across billions of light years

    ... . In 2000, Kashlinsky and Fernando Atrio-Barandela from the University of Salamanca, Spain, showed that astronomers could, in essence ... so far, it likely extends across the visible universe," Kashlinsky says. The finding flies in the face ...
  • Science's breakthrough of the year: Cellular reprogramming

    ... , we looked for research that answers major questions about how the universe works and that paves the way for future discoveries ... in hand to show that the standard model -- which describes most of the visible universe's particles and their interactions -- accurately predicts ...
  • Vanderbilt astronomers participate in new search for dark energy

    ... out about one-fifth of the full depth of the visible universe and traces the evolution of the universe back some 6.5 ... of the amount of variation that is possible," said Berlind. These virtual universes are being used to test the BOSS data analysis methods ...
  • Theorists propose a new way to shine -- and a new kind of star

    ... , a professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University, together with former graduate students and post ... that it probably hasn't happened within the visible universe anytime in the last 10 billion ...
  • Dark Matter Search in Minnesota Announces Exciting Results

    ... , based on its gravitational effects on the visible universe. Unrelated dark energy makes up nearly 70 percent of the universe, and the more familiar atomic matter represents just ...
  • Mysterious cosmic 'dark flow' tracked deeper into universe

    ... is controversial because the distribution of matter in the observed universe cannot account for it. Its existence suggests that some structure beyond the visible universe -- outside our "horizon" -- is pulling on matter ...
  • The Third Life

    ... or Bardesanian system, the father of the Demiurgus or architect of the visible universe.In the Codex Nazaraeus, written in a Chaldeo-Syrian dialect mixed with the mystery language of the Gnostics ...
  • UCI astrophysicists cast doubt on link between excess positrons and dark matter

    ... , which makes up about 25 percent of the energy density of the universe. Despite the recent tantalizing observation of excess ... that constitutes a quarter of the world and determines the architecture of the visible universe. And physicists would have the first evidence ...
  • Diagnosis murder

    ... Facilities Council and NASA and was a collaboration between researchers at The University of Nottingham and Imperial College London, gleaned ... Astronomical Society. "Massive galaxies are in the minority in our visible universe — about one in a thousand galaxies is thought to be massive ...
  • NASA's Swift catches 500th gamma-ray burst

    ... that they are extremely far away — and all the more powerful. Across the universe A key breakthrough in understanding GRBs came ... light-years away -- or more than halfway across the visible universe. Scientists conclude that one of its particle jets ...
  • Particle chameleon caught in the act of changing

    ... . Despite its success in describing the particles that make up the visible Universe and their interactions, physicists have long known ... types of neutrinos that could shed light on Dark Matter, which is believed to make up about a quarter of the Universe's mass ...

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