Leading astronomers discuss their most exciting findings from 2024, including insights from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, and the James Webb Space Telescope.
Each year, astronomers make breathtaking new discoveries that deepen our understanding of the universe and all it contains—and 2024 was no different.So Newsweek reached out to leading astronomers to share their standout discoveries of the year. Here's what they had to say.Wendy Freedman, John & Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics , The University of ChicagoI found the first results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to be exciting.
Thirty years ago, I published a paper predicting the existence of such galaxies based on the idea that a small fraction of all galaxies will be endowed with a small spin, allowing the gas to settle by self-gravity to a small region where it makes stars and could feed a central supermassive black hole.The observational discovery paper from 2024 was published here and my explanatory paper from 2024 was published here.
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