• Dark Matter Search Could Lead Us to a New Kind of Star

    Updated: 2025-07-07 04:00:13
    Space Health Environment Humans Tech Nature Physics Society Opinion Explainer About Us Our Team Follow Us Daily Newsletter Contact Privacy Privacy Manager Accessibility Terms 2025 ScienceAlert Pty Ltd Dark Matter Search Could Lead Us to a New Kind of Star Physics 07 July 2025 By Michael Irving An artist's impression of a brown . dwarf NASA JPL-Caltech Dark dwarfs could be lurking out in the cosmos , according to a new study . These hypothetical , effectively eternal bodies would be powered by dark matter annihilation and though dim , there is a way we could spot . them Dark matter is expected to pervade the Universe , but being… well , dark , it's hard to find . It doesn't reflect or emit light – its existence is only inferred through its interactions with regular matter via gravity .

  • Universe Will Start to Shrink in Just 7 Billion Years, Claims Study

    Updated: 2025-07-07 01:17:03
    , Space Health Environment Humans Tech Nature Physics Society Opinion Explainer About Us Our Team Follow Us Daily Newsletter Contact Privacy Privacy Manager Accessibility Terms 2025 ScienceAlert Pty Ltd Universe Will Start to Shrink in Just 7 Billion Years , Claims Study Space 07 July 2025 By Mark Thompson , Universe Today Could our Universe be headed for a Big Crunch after all Mark Garlick Science Photo Library For generations , humans have gazed at the stars and wondered about the ultimate fate of the Universe . Will it expand forever into the cold emptiness , or meet a more dramatic end A new study published by physicists from Cornell University , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , and other institutions suggests we may finally have an answer , and it's surprisingly . specific Using data

  • At 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide, Quipu Is Officially The Biggest Thing in Our Universe

    Updated: 2025-07-05 23:26:19
    , Space Health Environment Humans Tech Nature Physics Society Opinion Explainer About Us Our Team Follow Us Daily Newsletter Contact Privacy Privacy Manager Accessibility Terms 2025 ScienceAlert Pty Ltd At 1.3 Billion Light-Years Wide , Quipu Is Officially The Biggest Thing in Our Universe Space 06 July 2025 By Evan Gough , Universe Today Quipu red is the largest structure ever found in the Universe . The others are Shapley blue Serpens-Corona Borealis green Hercules purple and Sculptor-Pegasus beige Bohringer et al . 2025 Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it In principle , not . likely In practical terms Definitely not . Extremely large objects can distort our understanding of the . cosmos Astronomers have found the

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