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Astronomers Suspect Colliding Supermassive Black Holes Left the Universe Awash in Gravitational Waves
The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...
Could gravitational waves be the key to cosmic communication?
When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...
Astronomers announce largest collection of comets found outside our solar system
For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...
Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains
Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...
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Telescopes capture billion-year-old monster radio wave slicing through space
At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the universe's ...
Ukraine Discloses New Method To Defeat Russian Fiber-Optic-Controlled FPV Drones
Russian first-person view (FPV) drones that use fiber optic cables instead of radio waves to connect with their controllers, ...
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Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains
while longer wavelength energy includes infrared and radio waves. Color perception is also affected by the quantity of photons – what physicists call the power – at different visible wavelengths.
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If aliens could detect Earth from their planet, what would they see?
If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?
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The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...