Flip News — radio astronomy news https://flipnews.co.uk/topics/radio-astronomy/ The latest Flip News stories on radio astronomy. en-GB Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:20:36 GMT Canada's CHIME telescope detects the universe's hydrogen glow on its own, opening a new way to study dark energy https://flipnews.co.uk/science/chime-hydrogen-glow-dark-energy-autocorrelation/ https://flipnews.co.uk/science/chime-hydrogen-glow-dark-energy-autocorrelation/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment has made the first standalone detection of the 21 cm hydrogen signal from when the universe was five billion years old, proving it can probe dark energy without costly galaxy surveys. Priya Raman CHIME dark energy radio astronomy Canada astrophysics cosmology UBC News / The Astrophysical Journal