astrophysics

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"It'll be exciting, you know, in a slightly scary way, when they go behind the moon," Derek Buzasi, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Initially believed to be interference, the signals turned out to be the first evidence of pulsars, rapidly spinning neutron stars that opened a new field of astrophysics.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Bowling balls on a good length that move slightly away is hardly cricketing astrophysics.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

"One of the EHT collaboration's most important contributions to astrophysics is turning black holes into testable objects," Rezzolla emphasizes.

From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2025

If astrophysics developed, the existence of stars could eventually be deduced from the principles of physics, but they would be theoretical constructs only.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan