(Phys.org) —A single sensor for the world's largest digital camera detected light making its way through wind, air turbulence, and Earth's atmosphere, successfully converting the light into a glimpse of the galactic wonders that this delicate instrument will eventually capture as it...source: phys.org
(Phys.org) —Three physicists affiliated with several universities in the U.S. and France have built a computer simulation of the bubble-like voids that exist in dark matter which offers better density information. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the...source: phys.org
On June 19, the top of Cerro Armazones, a 10,000-foot mountain in northern Chile's Atacama Desert, was blown up to make way for the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT. While the prospect of an explosion elicited quite a buzz from twitter...source: businessinsider.com
Although Dark Energy and Dark Matter appear to constitute over 95 percent of the universe, nobody knows of which particles they are made up. Astrophysicists now crossed one potential Dark Matter candidate – the Dark Photon or U boson – off the list in top position. This is...source: phys.org