Human beings have always looked to the night sky and marveled at the wonders on show in our universe. The science of astronomy has developed in parallel with the evolution of optical technology and photography. One of the limitations of ground-based astronomy is that the Earth’s atmosphere distorts and restricts our view of outer space. …
The Big Bang describes the origin of the entire Universe. But it is often misunderstood as an explosion in space, as though space existed, as though time existed, and had simply been an explosion of matter and energy into space. But something deeper that is going on and that is space itself is created in …
The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the birth of the universe in the first instant of time. The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end… and what lies beyond its star fields… and streams of galaxies extending as …
How big can they get? What’s the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide? We’ve never seen them directly. Yet we know they are there, lurking within dense star clusters… or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy where they prey on stars… Or swallow planets whole. (source: …
