Ten Strangest Things About Our Universe - 2008

"Artist's rendition of a hypervelocity star leaving a galaxy. Image Credit: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsTen Strangest Things About Our Universe - 2008At the end of any year, one is confronted with...

Dark New Ideas About Cosmological 'Dark Matter.'

Many years on, and many, many, many dollars spent, scientists still don't know what the mysterious 'dark matter' is. They claim that it is there and claim to have indirectly detected it, but its assumed properties...

Scientists can now see dark matter, they still don't know what it is

Dark matter, the stuff that makes up most of the unknown universe, and is actually not visible with ordinary telescopes like planets, the Milky Way and stars are has now been mapped out in a really complicated scientific way by some very smart cosmotologists. "One of the...

Are black holes dead stars?

Gravitational pull on objects, and the surrounding accretion discs of matter, is evidence for both black holes and dark energy stars.

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