Dipole Repeller pushing our galaxy at tremendous speed
An Unexplained ‘Void’ Appears to Be Pushing the Milky Way Through the Universe at 2 Million Km/h You can’t feel it , but our planet is orbiting the Sun at speeds of roughly 100,000...
Category: Astronomy
The repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102: Multi-wavelength observations and additional bursts
[1603.08880] The repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102: Multi-wavelength observations and additional bursts Abstract: We report on radio and X-ray observations of the only known repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) source, FRB 121102. We...
There are at least 10 times the number of Galaxies than previously thought…
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-reveals-observable-universe-contains-10-times-more-galaxies-than-previously-thought
Rosetta’s final hours before being crashed into comet
http://news.sky.com/story/rosettas-final-hours-before-being-crashed-into-comet-10597600
Hubble peers into the Large Magellanic Cloud
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-image-hubble-peers-large-magellanic.html
Hawking radiation’s strongest evidence yet
The Israeli research that’s bringing Stephen Hawking closer to the Nobel Prize – Science The results of Prof. Jeff Steinhauer’s black hole experiment at the Technion bridges two previously unreconcilable theories of physics.
LIGO Members Testify Before US Congress on Gravitational Wave Discovery
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160218
Gravitational waves directly detected at LIGO
Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the...
Super-massive object found in early Universe tests theories of cosmic evolution
Young black hole had monstrous growth spurt Zhaoyu Li/SHAO A black hole that grew to gargantuan size in the Universe’s first billion years is by far the largest yet spotted from such an early...