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The freckled universe

05/06/25

Madeleine O’Keefe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

09/21/16

The proposed International Linear Collider has a fuzzy new ally.

09/16/16

A theoretical species of particle might answer nearly every question about our cosmos—if scientists can find it.

09/13/16

Many theories predict the existence of magnetic monopoles, but experiments have yet to see them.

09/09/16

What can the surprisingly huge mass of the black holes detected by LIGO tell us about dark matter and the early universe?

09/06/16

A new tool lets astronomers listen to the universe for the first time.

09/01/16

A puzzling mismatch is forcing astronomers to re-think how well they understand the expansion of the universe.

08/30/16

What can our cosmic neighbors tell us about dark matter and the early universe?

08/26/16

Physicists exchanged cognac in Copenhagen at the conclusion of a bet about supersymmetry and the LHC.