Cosmic Scale

Cosmic Scale

33 papers

The massive satellite network the government uses is accidentally blasting out people's private passwords in plain text for anyone to see.

AI & ML arxiv | Mar 13

A tiny neighbor galaxy is actually bending the Milky Way and leaving behind "ghost" trails of stars that we used to think were ancient relics.

space arxiv | Mar 13

Massive galaxy clusters are acting like giant magnifying glasses, making things from the early universe look 8 times bigger than they actually are.

space arxiv | Mar 13

If Mars was orbiting our neighbor star, its entire atmosphere would be gone in just 10 million years—poof.

space arxiv | Mar 13

The Webb telescope found a massive "ring" galaxy from 12 billion years ago that likely formed after a brutal head-on cosmic car crash.

space arxiv | Mar 13

A massive shockwave in space is rolling up galaxy gas into giant "smoke rings" that are hundreds of thousands of light-years wide.

space arxiv | Mar 13

There’s a sonic boom happening in space that’s four times faster than the speed of sound, all because two galaxy clusters slammed into each other.

space arxiv | Mar 13

The wealth gap between rich and poor countries is actually 74% bigger than what the official income numbers tell you.

economics ssrn | Mar 13

The value of your house is actually tied to how strong the U.S. dollar is, even if you’re living on the other side of the world.

economics ssrn | Mar 13

Forget what you've heard about black holes; their surfaces might actually be 'fuzzy' patches where the concepts of distance and order just stop working.

Physics arxiv | Mar 16

The actual shape of the universe is like a giant cosmic fingerprint that's forcing space to stretch out unevenly.

Physics arxiv | Mar 16

The dark matter surrounding galaxies might be the exact 'glue' needed to prop open a wormhole you could actually travel through.

space arxiv | Mar 16

Our solar system isn't flying through space like a comet; it's actually wrapped in a bubble shaped like a giant, split croissant.

space arxiv | Mar 16

Scientists just caught a single particle from deep space that has as much energy as a billion of our biggest supercolliders put together.

space arxiv | Mar 17

If a black hole passed through a thin sheet of 'superfluid,' it would start popping out quantum whirlpools like crazy.

space arxiv | Mar 17

We may soon be able to tell if neutron stars are full of 'quark soup' just by listening to the hum they make when they’re near a black hole.

space arxiv | Mar 17

An 831-bit encryption key is so tough that it's physically impossible to crack before the last stars in the universe burn out.

Physics arxiv | Mar 17

Saturn’s iconic rings aren't just there—they’re the mangled remains of a lost moon we named Chrysalis.

space arxiv | Mar 17

The spin of the very first black holes was probably decided by tiny quantum jitters during the first seconds of the Big Bang.

space arxiv | Mar 17

Scientists are using laser-cooled ions to simulate how dead stars freeze their cores into giant crystals.

Physics arxiv | Mar 17

The James Webb telescope just got a detailed 'light fingerprint' of a single massive spot on a star far, far away.

space arxiv | Mar 17

Scientists turned a massive underwater internet cable into a 2,700-mile-long microphone that listens to the entire ocean.

Physics arxiv | Mar 18

We found "ghosts" of impossibly heavy particles from the start of time hidden in the echoes of the Big Bang.

Physics arxiv | Mar 18

Tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang might be blowing up right now, briefly glitching the laws of physics.

space arxiv | Mar 18

A star just blew up inside a massive, 70,000-light-year-wide ring left over from two galaxies smashing into each other.

space arxiv | Mar 18

Physicists recreated the expanding universe in a cloud of freezing gas just to find a rare "quantum echo" from the void.

Physics arxiv | Mar 18

Scientists are literally hunting for tiny black holes that might be hiding right here in our own solar system.

space arxiv | Mar 18

A nearby black hole is secretly 100 times more powerful than we thought, solving a massive energy mystery in our galaxy.

space arxiv | Mar 18

We can literally "ship" the leftover heat from giant AI computers across the globe to heat our homes for free.

economics ssrn | Mar 18

We think flu shots work great globally, but that's an illusion—almost all the data comes from wealthy countries.

economics ssrn | Mar 18

Just having a super complicated tax system can wipe out a third of a country’s potential industrial output.

economics ssrn | Mar 18

One party's extremism is a trap you can only get out of if the other side decides to chill out first.

economics ssrn | Mar 18

You can accurately map the cultural borders of the U.S. just by looking at the first names people gave their kids in the 1800s.

economics ssrn | Mar 18