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...cosmic expansion should have been slowing down a lot or a little, depending on whether it contained a lot of matter or a little--an effect that should have shown up as distant supernovas, looking brighter than you would expect compared with closer ones. But, in fact, they were dimmer--as if the expansion was speeding up. "I kept running the numbers through the computer," recalls Adam Riess, a Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer analyzing the data from Schmidt's group, "and the answers made no sense. I was sure there was a bug in the program." Perlmutter's group...
...went off about 11 billion years ago--about 50% further back in time than the previous record holder. "If the dust were there," says Lawrence Berkeley astrophysicist Peter Nugent, a member of Perlmutter's team and Riess's collaborator on the new research, "the supernova would have been much dimmer than...
...wealthy! At least that's what the dimmer readers of "The Income Tax Conspiracy" by Jason L. Steorts '03 (Opinion, March 7) might be tempted to yell. The brighter bulbs, however, can recognize it for the inanity...
Einstein's 1915 general relativity theory has predicted the existence of black holes and event horizons. But until recently, telescopes were too imprecise to tell the difference between dim neutron stars and even dimmer black holes...
Chandra has cleaner and more precisely aligned mirrors than any other telescope. According to Garcia, the improvement means Chandra can see objects that are 100 times dimmer than what previous telescopes could see--and that difference is enough to detect the factor of 100 in brightness between neutron stars and black holes...