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5 days ago · Behind the scenes, the producing team includes Karl Zwicky as series producer and heavyweight executive producers like Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz, Lisa Duff, David Ogilvy, Mikael Borglund, Greg Quail, Simonne Overend, and more across several production companies.
4 days ago · May 26, 2024 by Andy Tomaswick. A New Way to Measure the Rotation of Black Holes. Sometimes, astronomers get lucky and catch an event they can watch to see how the properties of some of the most...
4 days ago · Zwicky found that the individual gala xies in a cluster of galaxies such as the Virgo Cluster are internally moving far too rapidly to hold together from the mutual gravitations pull of all the...
5 days ago · Dark matter’s existence was first inferred by Swiss American astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who in 1933 discovered that the mass of all the stars in the Coma cluster of galaxies provided only about 1 percent of the mass needed to keep the galaxies from escaping the cluster’s gravitational pull.
- Adam Riess
- Dark matter is a component of the universe whose presence is discerned from its gravitational attraction rather than its luminosity.
- Dark matter makes up 30.1 percent of the matter-energy composition of the universe. The rest is dark energy (69.4 percent) and “ordinary” visible m...
- Two varieties of dark matter have been found to exist. The first variety is about 4.5 percent of the universe and made of the familiar baryons (i.e...
3 days ago · The irregular dwarf galaxy was first identified in the 1930s, but scientists are using Webb’s powerful resolution and sensitivity in the infrared to look closer at I Zwicky 18 and study the ...
6 days ago · The spinning giant was detected in February 2020, when the Zwicky Transient Facility detected a flash of light from an object 1 billion light-years from Earth. The team studied the light source, which they believed to be a tidal disruption event, for over 200 days using NASA’s NICER telescope, which observes the cosmos at X-ray wavelengths.
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