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Supercomputer simulates existence of dark matter clumps in Milky Way

Posted August 08, 2008 04:04 of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang.The simulation ran on the Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory took a month and followed the gravitational interactions of more than a billion parcels of dark matter over 13.7 bi...

Two days until Large Hadron Collider activation: countdown to the beginning or the end?

Posted August 05, 2008 14:02 strong enough to make mini-versions of the Big Bang.Naturally, something as strong as that is a force to be reckoned with, and it's not surprising that various groups believe that it may actually create particles dangerous enough to destroy the w...

The Science Weekend Warrior: black holes and Martian asparagus

Posted June 29, 2008 11:11 and is meant to produce mini-versions of the Big Bang. Some fear it may produce more than that though.Some scientists, who have reason to be paranoid about this, believe that the LHC might create a black hole, or something just as dangerous, and des...

Will Earth's largest particle accelerator create a black hole?

Posted June 23, 2008 14:02 machine (17 miles in circumference) was made to bang particles together. Ok, not just bang. SMASH. Like Hulk smash, only with the power of as much as 14 trillion electron volts. These collisions are meant to produce mini-versions of the Big Bang.Su...

Where have all the mini-galaxies gone?

Posted May 01, 2008 04:04 were formed three billion years after the big bang. They were surprised to find practically little to nothing at all.Pieter van Dokkum and his team of scientists did their little measuring endeavor at Yale University. They focused on galaxies tha...

Twin universe might have existed before the Big Bang

Posted April 10, 2008 10:10 twin universe might have existed before the Big Bang.“The significance of this concept is that it answers what happened to the universe before the Big Bang," said Singh as he discussed the mysteries of the phenomenon. He also noted the importan...

Search for Theory of Everything continues, cosmos simulated in a test tube

Posted December 28, 2007 02:02 black holes, cosmic strings, and the Big Bang for instance.This is great for testing theories, since the equations describing helium-3 are well-established enough to say that it is the most complex system for which we already have the "Theo...

A cold spot in the universe: cosmic bubble or cosmic defect?

Posted October 27, 2007 09:09 back to the birth of the universe, the Big Bang. The cold spot was detected in the cosmic microwave background of the universe.The microwave is radiation left over from the Big Bang and the cold spot is an area of extreme cold. The cold spot t...

Black hole gang seen gobbling space gas

Posted April 22, 2007 19:07 mentioned may in fact be a remnant of the big bang that gave birth to the universe. Whatever the case, the astronomers are digging deep into it using the Arecibo Space Telescope in Puerto Rico. We'll tell you as soon as they find anything new....

Black hole and fast stars in galactic center

Posted January 16, 2007 08:08 Over at Astronomy Picture of the Day, they have the time-lapse movie below along with an explanation written by a professional astronomer (it's a bit technical, so we'll try to explain some things f