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"'We Came Here to Exclude the Negro. Nothing Short of This Will Answer.'"

From Justice Jackson's opinion, joined by Justice Sotomayor, dissenting from the denial of certiorari today in Harness v. Watson: The President of the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention said it plain: "Let us tell the truth if it bursts the bottom of the Universe … We came here to exclude the…

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India’s largest radio telescope plays vital role in detecting universe’s vibrations

An international team of astronomers from India, Japan and Europe has published the results from monitoring pulsars, called ‘nature’s best clocks’, by using six of the world’s most sensitive radio telescopes, including India’s largest telescope, the Pune-based uGMRT.

The Hindu

The universe is rippling with a faint 'gravitational wave background' created by colliding black holes, huge international study suggests

A 15-year search reveals the first evidence of a cosmic 'gravitational wave background' emitted by ancient, colliding black holes.

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Using a detector the size of a galaxy, astronomers find strongest evidence yet for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs

When black holes and other enormously massive, dense objects whirl around one another, they send out ripples in space and time called gravitational waves. These waves are one of the few ways we have to study the enigmatic cosmic giants that create them.

The Conversation

Cosmological models are built on a simple, century-old idea -- but new observations demand a radical rethink

Our ideas about the Universe are based on a century-old simplification known as the cosmological principle. It suggests that when averaged on large scales, the Cosmos is homogeneous and matter is distributed evenly throughout.

The Conversation

Physicists May Be Tantalizingly Close to Identifying What Dark Matter is Made Of

There’s some potentially big news on the hunt for dark matter. Astronomers may have a handle on what makes this mysterious cosmic stuff: strange particles called “axions.”

Inverse

Why is the sky dark at night? The 200-year history of a question that transformed our understanding of the Universe

As dawn rose over the German city of Bremen on May 7 1823, Heinrich Olbers put the finishing touches to an article that left his name in history. After the deaths of his wife and daughter, Dr Olbers had recently given up his work as an opthalmologist to devote himself…

The Conversation

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Universe’s Most Distant Molecules Detected 12 Billion Light Years Away

“Discoveries like this are precisely what Webb was built to do.

Zenger

Our Newest Space Observatories Will Unveil An Unprecedented View of the Earliest Cosmic Period

A new version of the LISA observatory could catch gravitational waves with far more detail and expand our knowledge of the Universe.

Inverse

Astronomers Discover the Dark Source of the Brightest Cosmic Blast Ever

AT2021lwx is outshining and outlasting supernovas by a big margin.

Inverse

How fast is the Universe really expanding? Multiple views of an exploding star raise new questions

How did we get here? Where are we going? And how long will it take? These questions are as old as humanity itself, and, if they’ve already been asked by other species elsewhere in the Universe, potentially very much older than that.

The Conversation

Astronomers solve a 60-year mystery

Until now, no one knew for sure what quasars — among the most massive explosions in the universe — really were

Salon

Astronomers Just Captured the First-Ever View of a Black Hole’s Galaxy-Sized Jet

A new study gives insight about the ring of hot churning material destined to plummet into a supermassive black hole, and its connection to a high-speed jet.

Inverse

Astronomers solve the mystery of how quasars are ignited

These celestial objects were first discovered 60 years ago.

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Inverse

Under Extreme Conditions, Gravity Could Exhibit This Truly Bizarre Behavior

Researchers have discovered that in the exotic conditions of the early universe, waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation.

Inverse

Why the Largest-Ever Catalog of Supernovae Could Change How We Study Them

A new catalog allows astronomers to trace the evolution of a star's death.

Daily Mirror

Astronomers discover four oldest galaxies born 500million years AFTER the Big Bang

Astronomers have spotted four of the oldest galaxies ever discovered which are believed to date back to the earliest days of the known universe, created after just 300million years

The Conversation

A 'next-generation' gamma-ray observatory is underway to probe the extreme Universe

Long gone are the days when astronomers only studied the skies with simple optical telescopes. Today, unveiling the mysteries of the Universe involves ever-larger and more complex facilities that detect things like gravitational waves and different forms of electromagnetic radiation – the spectrum of energy that includes visible light and…

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Scientists discover black hole nearly 33 billion times bigger than the Sun

Scientists from Durham University have discovered one of the largest black holes ever detected in the universe, and it’s 32.7 billion times bigger than the Sun.

Wales Online

Blast of radiation mysteriously redirected towards Earth by another galaxy

Blazars are very high energy objects and are considered to be one of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe

Inverse

NASA Uncovers a Massive Galactic Mystery 9 Billion Light-Years from Earth

X-ray and optical telescopes suggest that an ancient galaxy gobbled up its neighbors and likely lives alone in the distant Universe.

The Conversation

Humans are still hunting for aliens. Here's how astronomers are looking for life beyond Earth

We have long been fascinated with the idea of alien life. The earliest written record presenting the idea of “aliens” is seen in the satiric work of Assyrian writer Lucian of Samosata dated to 200 AD.

Daily Mirror

Supermassive black hole lurking at edge of universe one of biggest ever detected

The supermassive black hole contains over a billion solar masses worth of interstellar dust and lies at the centre of an extreme galaxy and dates back over 13 billion years

Inverse

“I Almost Spit Out My Coffee”: A New JWST Early Universe Discovery Has Astronomers Giddy

New results show fully formed galaxies in the early Universe that could rewrite what we know about galaxies and black holes.

The Conversation

‘We just discovered the impossible': how giant baby galaxies are shaking up our understanding of the early Universe

“Look at this,” says Erica’s message. She is poring over the very first images from the brand new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

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