Magnetic fields thread through galaxy clusters and stretch along cosmic filaments spanning hundreds of millions of light-years. They deflect cosmic rays, shape star formation, and influence the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When scientists push the limits of the world's most powerful supercomputers, they often find those limits are just the beginning ...

A new method could improve cosmology research by analyzing supernovae together with the galaxies that host them.

For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into mainstream culture and serious philosophy. Now a new wave of theoretical work ...

Could galaxies straight out of a computer fool even the most seasoned astronomers? That is the case with the COLIBRE simulation, whose virtual galaxies are so realistic they are indistinguishable from ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

If he can do that, it could lead to a fundamental shift in how we think about the universe and could even explain the presence of dark matter and dark energy. Vopson, PhD, studies information theory ...

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