Topic: Galaxies & Cosmology

Closer Look: Dark Energy Not Found but Needed

Last week I was super excited that we just might be on a solid path toward the discovery of Dark Energy in the physics of black holes. Since going down a rabbit hole of papers and papers referenced by those papers, I’ve had it pointed out that just like Modified Newtonian Gravity makes perfect sense with a nicely curated data set but doesn’t appear to actually be real, the Dark Energy from black holes research looks a lot less certain under critique.  So I got really excited and learned a few things, and hopefully you learned a few things, and those things may not be real, but they pointed...

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Found: Galaxies lining up in early universe

Found: Galaxies lining up in early universe

This deep galaxy field from Webb's Near-Infrared Camera shows an arrangement of 10 distant galaxies (white circles) in a diagonal. NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang/University of Arizona and Joseph DePasquale/STScI Currently, a lot of the research we see coming from JWST is...

Found: Time slows with distance

Found: Time slows with distance

Before we go to break, I want to highlight one more piece of news. In a new paper in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers Geraint Lewis and Brendon Brewer show evidence for time appearing to tick slower in the early universe. According to relativity, as our...