AC News Weekly (Image credit: Android Central) News Weekly is our section where we highlight and summarize some of the biggest stories of the week, keeping you up to date with the latest technology news. This is Android Central’s News Weekly, your go-to source for a concise look at the week’s biggest tech stories. Here, … Read more
One of the most sought-after objects in the universe has just been discovered in our Milky Way galaxy. At the center of a densely packed globular cluster called Omega Centauri, about 17,000 light-years away, astronomers have found evidence for the existence of an intermediate-mass black hole. The mass of this black hole is at least … Read more
Recent studies have led to renewed interest in the concept of Dyson spheres, theoretical megastructures that could potentially harness the energy of entire stars. This intriguing idea has led some scientists to speculate whether such structures could explain the universe’s missing mass. Despite the excitement, many experts remain skeptical about the existence of Dyson spheres … Read more
The search for “missing matter” in the universe has failed so many times that some exotic suggestions are being taken more seriously than ever. As Sherlock Holmes famously said, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” In this case, many improbable ideas are being tested to see if … Read more
SWITCHING BANK REGISTRATION has traditionally been an easy way to earn free money. Banks regularly offer incentives worth hundreds of pounds to new customers who switch to them for a set period. There are currently four deals active. Banks are imposing increasingly strict requirements on savers to get free moneyCredit: Getty – Contributor The offers … Read more
Earth may be swimming in an ocean of dark matter, according to new theoretical research. Waves in that invisible ocean, lapping against our planet’s upper atmosphere, may generate detectable radio waves that could finally help us find this elusive part of the universe. A wealth of astrophysical and cosmological evidence points to the existence of … Read more
Astronomers have discovered two new satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. The findings could help us better understand dark matter: the mysterious stuff that makes up about 85% of the matter in the universe, but remains essentially invisible to us. The discoveries also bring scientists one step closer to solving a persistent problem with the … Read more
Astronomers have discovered two new satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. The findings could help us better understand dark matter: the mysterious stuff that makes up about 85% of the matter in the universe, but remains essentially invisible to us. The discoveries also bring scientists one step closer to solving a persistent problem with the … Read more
The Milky Way isn’t the only galaxy in its little corner of the universe. Small, faint dwarf galaxies, many of which contain only a thousand stars, are speeding around our cosmic neighborhood on long, graceful circuits. It’s unclear exactly how many there are, but there should be many more than the 60 or so we’ve … Read more
Scientists have discovered that unusually large black holes appear to be absent from the Milky Way’s diffuse outer halo. The discovery could spell bad news for theories that suggest the most mysterious form of “stuff” in the universe, dark matter, consists of primordial black holes that formed in the first moments after the Big Bang. … Read more