11 stories tagged astrophysics, newest first.
83 points by gumby | 52 comments
Quanta Magazine article on a triplet of galaxies apparently lacking dark matter, possibly from a collision, and what it implies for alternative gravity theories.
6 points by saikatsg | 1 comments
A 404 Media article on a study finding the solar system is dynamically unstable over long timescales and will eventually be destroyed.
449 points by aplavin | 161 comments
Interactive browser app rendering a physically accurate black hole with relativistic ray bending and Doppler boosting, viewable on screen, in AR/VR, or lensing your camera feed.
814 points by zaikunzhang | 550 comments
Blog essay arguing that the risk of AI in science is researchers, especially PhD students, drifting into not understanding their own work.
349 points by Eduard | 184 comments
Caltech news article announcing that LIGO detected the most massive black hole merger observed to date via gravitational waves.
705 points by zaik | 563 comments
University of Portsmouth blog post in which Professor Enrique Gaztanaga proposes a theory that the Big Bang may have occurred inside a black hole.
347 points by Luc | 46 comments
Project homepage for OpenSPH, a versatile particle code for astrophysical simulations such as asteroid impacts, here showing its SpaceSim section.
331 points by jchanimal | 151 comments
The Debrief article reporting that James Webb Space Telescope observations provide evidence supporting an alternate theory of gravity.
327 points by nsoonhui | 321 comments
Quanta Magazine article on a long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope study of the cosmic expansion rate that deepens the Hubble tension in cosmology.
322 points by Brajeshwar | 133 comments
Quanta Magazine article on James Webb Space Telescope observations revealing an unexpected abundance of giant black holes in the early universe.
382 points by throw0101c | 180 comments
Nature news article from 29 June 2023 reporting the first detection of low-frequency 'monster' gravitational waves via pulsar timing.