Astronomers detect oldest black hole ever observed
17 January 2024Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it is ‘eating’ its host galaxy to death.
Dark energy could be measured by studying the galaxy next door
14 August 2023Researchers have found a new way to measure dark energy – the mysterious force that makes up more than two-thirds of the universe and is responsible for its accelerating expansion – in our own cosmic backyard.
Webb sees carbon-rich dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time
19 July 2023For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the early universe.
New findings that map the universe’s cosmic growth support Einstein’s theory of gravity
11 April 2023A new image reveals the most detailed map of dark matter distributed across a quarter of the entire sky, reaching deep into the cosmos.
Webb telescope reaches new milestone in its search for distant galaxies
09 December 2022New findings confirm that JWST has surpassed the Hubble telescope in its ability to observe the early Universe
Can cosmic inflation be ruled out?
03 November 2022Astrophysicists say that cosmic inflation – a point in the Universe’s infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really refer to when they talk about the ‘Big Bang’ – can in principle be ruled out in an assumption-free way.
Slow spin of early galaxy observed for the first time
01 July 2022One of the most distant known galaxies, observed in the very earliest years of the Universe, appears to be rotating at less than a quarter of the speed of the Milky Way today, according to a new study involving University of Cambridge researchers.
Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births
21 March 2022Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three state-of-the-art simulations to back up results from a large sky survey, researchers from the University of Cambridge have resolved a 20-year long debate on the formation of stars.
Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology named Intel oneAPI Center of Excellence
26 October 2021The Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (Hawking CTC) at the University of Cambridge is expanding its Intel Graphics and Visualization Institute of Xellence (Intel GVI) to an Intel oneAPI Center of Excellence, which will help expand our understanding of the universe.
Have we detected dark energy? Cambridge scientists say it’s a possibility
15 September 2021Dark energy, the mysterious force that causes the universe to accelerate, may have been responsible for unexpected results from the XENON1T experiment, deep below Italy’s Apennine Mountains.
