Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder and colleagues analyzed the satellite imagery of the ice shelf's demise and found substantial
observational proof for a theory of ice disintegration first proposed more than two decades ago.
Using Hubble's high - resolution imaging capabilities they managed to get the first
observational proof for a kilonova, the visible counterpart of the merging of two extremely dense objects — most likely two neutron stars [3].
Not exact matches
However, as with other
observational studies, these results may have been affected by confounding variables that were unknown and thus not accounted
for, and the observation of an association gives no
proof of causality.
Now scientists from the Technische Universität München (TUM), Stockholm University, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, ICTP South American Institute
for Fundamental Research, São Paulo and University of Amsterdam have obtained
for the first time a direct
observational proof of the presence of dark matter in the innermost part the Milky Way, including at the Earth's location and in our own «cosmic neighborhood».