At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the universe's ...
Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...
This Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) is the conclusive evidence for the Big Bang theory. The 'temperature' of deep space has been measured as around 3K, not absolute zero, due to the ...
When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...
Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...
At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever ... until now — because of the obscuring cosmic microwave background left over from the Big Bang.
As the star spins, these beams sweep past Earth and produce periodic pulses of radio waves, much like a cosmic lighthouse. This behaviour has earned them the name “pulsars”. Pulsars typically ...