If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...
Some 13.8bn years ago, the universe came into existence in the Big Bang. Its first moments were a period of pure energy with intense, possibly infinite, heat and density. As the universe expanded, it ...
Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA. If you look across space with a telescope, ...
Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...