Vishay Singh

Author Vishay Singh

Decades out of the gate, scientists still don’t know what makes up the bulk of the universe’s matter. But they have some strong contenders. ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

A simulation of an accretion disk surrounding a supermassive black hole. (Credit: Scott C. Noble) When the LIGO collaboration first detected the spacetime ripples of a gravitational wave it came from the merger of two black holes. To date, scientists have detected at least ten pairs of black holes spiraling into and combining with each other. But there's still an outstanding mystery about these singularities: why are some of them so big? Some have been far larger than scientists think po ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

An illustration depicting a Type I X-ray burst. A similar supernova generated the extreme X-ray burst that NASA's NICER instrument recently recorded. (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA)) In late August, an instrument on the International Space Station, called NICER, spotted its brightest burst of X-ray radiation yet. NICER, or the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, studies X-rays that come from neutron stars, the super-dense remnants of some stars afte ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

An artist's reconstruction of what Fukuipteryx prima may have looked like. (Credit: Masanori Yoshida) It was a typical Japanese summer — hot, humid and cloudy — when archaeologists pulled a well-preserved, fossilized bird from the ground in 2013. Their find, announced this week in Nature Communications Biology, might change our idea of what adaptations were essential to the development of flight. Close to Flight Named Fukuipteryx prima, the archaeologists date the bird ...read more

Author Vishay Singh

The bird's fossil was found with its 3D structure intact — a rare find that helped paleontologists glean insights into the development of flight. ...read more