正在加载视频...

视频加载失败

A journey through space 🚀 This image, captured by the #NIRCam on Webb, features the galaxy cluster MACS J0553.4-3342. It is so vast that its gravity causes light to curve, revealing distant galaxies – including galaxies from less than a billion years after the Big Bang! 1/2

32,486 次观看 • 3 天前 •via X (Twitter)

0 条评论

暂无评论

原始帖子的评论将显示在这里

相关视频

Brian Cox is pointing at one dot. The dot is a galaxy with 100 billion stars. There are 200 billion more on the same map. The thin line at the top of that map represents a billion light-years. At the speed of light, it would take a billion years to cross that sliver. The math gets stranger. The observable universe holds roughly 30 sextillion stars. Every grain of sand on every beach on Earth combined is about 7.5 sextillion. The universe has 4x more stars than Earth has sand. The deeper number is which of those galaxies you can ever actually reach. Dark energy is accelerating cosmic expansion. Space itself is stretching faster than light can cross it. The cosmic event horizon sits at roughly 16 billion light-years from Earth. Anything past that is moving away from us faster than light can chase. We can see those galaxies because their photons left billions of years ago when the gap was small enough. We cannot reach them. We cannot send a signal. We cannot know what they look like now. 97% of the galaxies on Cox's map are already disconnected from our future. Visible artifacts of a past that has ended. Now look forward. In about 150 billion years, accelerating redshift will push every galaxy outside our Local Group beyond detection. Andromeda will have merged with the Milky Way. The other 199,999,999,999 galaxies will be invisible. Civilizations on planets around future stars will look up and see only one galaxy. Their telescopes will tell them the universe ends at the edge of the Local Group. They will not see cosmic background radiation. They will not observe expansion. They will not know about the Big Bang. The evidence will have receded past their light cone. Every astronomy textbook they could ever write would conclude the universe is small, static, and made of one galaxy. We exist in a 100-billion-year window where the universe is still legible. Before us, too hot, too dense, too young. After us, the lights go out one galaxy at a time. 30 sextillion stars on the map. A 100-billion-year window in which to read it. We exist inside the only overlap.

Aakash Gupta

53,211 次观看 • 2 个月前

A one-in-a-million chance—and it happened. A team from the Technical University of Munich spent six years compiling a list of promising gravitational lenses and waiting for a supernova to explode behind one of them. In August 2025, it happened. A superluminous supernova 10 billion light-years away was located precisely behind two foreground galaxies—and its light, bent by gravity, produced five images of the same explosion. Typically, lenses produce two or four—five was a surprise even to the authors. The supernova was named SN Winny. The odds of such a coincidence are less than one in a million. But the value of the discovery is enormous. Light from the supernova travels to us along different paths around the lensing galaxies, and each path has its own length. Because of this, the five copies appear with different time delays. By measuring these delays and knowing the mass distribution in the lensing galaxies, one can directly calculate the Hubble-Lemaître constant, or the rate of expansion of the Universe. How is this better than existing methods? The classic "cosmic distance scale" is a multi-step process, with errors accumulating from step to step. Microwave background radiation measurements are precise, but depend on models of the evolution of the Universe. The lensed supernova method is a single-step process, with completely different sources of error. SN Winny is particularly convenient: it is lensed by just two individual galaxies with a simple mass distribution, rather than a complex cluster. SN Winny is currently being observed by telescopes around the world. The results could bring us closer to resolving the Hubble controversy—the discrepancy between the two main methods for measuring the expansion rate.

Black Hole

180,919 次观看 • 4 个月前

Another Galaxy Without Dark Matter Dark matter is thought to account for about 85% of the Universe's total mass, yet there are galaxies that stubbornly refuse to conform to this rule. A team of astronomers led by researchers from Yale, using the Keck Observatory, has discovered a third such galaxy: the faint dwarf DF9, which appears to lack invisible mass entirely. The concept of dark matter emerged in the 1970s, when Vera Rubin first convincingly demonstrated that galaxies are held together by some form of invisible mass. Since then, a wealth of indirect evidence—such as galactic halos and gravitational lensing—has accumulated. This makes the exceptions all the more intriguing. DF9 sits alongside two other similarly "empty" galaxies—DF2 and DF4—as part of an elongated chain of seven galaxies located 45 million light-years away; all of them appear to have originated from a single event. How was this determined? By analyzing stellar motion, the team estimated DF9's mass at approximately 100 million solar masses—a figure that matches the combined mass of its visible stars, gas, and dust. Had dark matter been present, the total mass would have been roughly a hundred times greater. The necessary precision was achieved using the KCWI spectrograph on the Keck telescope, an instrument specifically designed to detect extremely faint light sources. It appears that DF2, DF4, and DF9 formed during a high-speed galactic collision that stripped gas clouds away from their dark matter halos, allowing the new galaxies to coalesce from ordinary matter alone. Lead author Michael Keim notes that a chain of dark-matter-free galaxies has never been observed before. His supervisor, Pieter van Dokkum, adds that this provides compelling evidence that dark matter is a genuine physical substance rather than merely a "correction" to the theory of gravity.

Black Hole

23,825 次观看 • 13 天前