Universe speed limit

The Universe Has A Speed Limit, And It Isn’t The Speed Of Light Nothing can go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But particles in our Universe can’t even go that… Mayank Patel in The Startup9 min read Best of Starts With A Bang! for you 4 Cosmic Records That The James Webb Space Telescope Should Shatter We’ve come fantastically far in our understanding of the distant Universe. Here’s how we’ll go even farther. Ethan Siegel3 min read Ask Ethan: Will The Earth Eventually Be Swallowed By The Sun? The Sun will eventually become a red giant star, swallowing Mercury and Venus in the process. But what will happen to Earth? Ethan Siegel9 min read Could DAMA’s ‘Dark Matter Signal’ Simply Be Poorly Analyzed Noise? Only one dark matter detection experiment ever gave a positive result, in conflict with all the others. This could be why. Ethan Siegel8 min read Are Physicists Too Dismissive When Experiments Give Unexpected Results? Scientific surprises are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science. Ethan Siegel9 min read The Universe Would Be Very Different Without Dark Matter It really is the ‘glue’ that holds the Universe together, enabling structures like our own galaxy to form in the first place. Ethan Siegel8 min read Ask Ethan: Could Gravitational Waves Ever Cause Damage On Earth? Black hole mergers are some of the most energetic events in the Universe. Could the gravitational waves they produce ever harm us? Ethan Siegel9 min read