dark energy

Ockham’s Razor Is Deeply Misleading

An artist's impression of how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0

Is the Universe Different In Different Directions?

Muon g-2 Anomaly: US Experiments Find Hint of a Crack in the Laws of Physics

Explainer: What Are Fundamental Particles?

Palomar Transient Factory, Zwicky Transient Facility, small telescopes, Vera Rubin Observatory, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Shrinivas Kulkarni, SpaceX Starlink, astronomical twilight, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, dark energy, Hubble constant, redshift, Doppler effect, charge-coupled devices, Type Ia supernovae, supernova, neutron stars, pulsars, millisecond pulsars, Alex Filippenko, Ooty radio telescope, Govind Swarup, IIT Delhi, Caltech Optical Observatory, Donald Backer,

Interview: Shrinivas Kulkarni, Finder of a Thousand Exploding Stars

Big Bang, Big Chill, Big Freeze, Big Rip, quantum tunneling, cosmic microwave background radiation, metric expansion of the universe, cosmic inflation, redshift, Doppler effect, metastable valley, Hubble constant, cosmological constant, Quintessence, dark energy, gravity, general theory of relativity,

Why Won’t the Gravity of Galaxies Keep Our Universe From Expanding?

The Universe’s Rate of Expansion Is in Dispute – We May Need New Physics to Solve It