Anita Chandran

Physicist

Anita Chandran is a physicist, a science writer and Communications Officer at the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility.

Recent articles by Anita Chandran

The six unexpectedly huge galaxies overturn all predictions. Follow-up studies should reveal if the six bodies really are galaxies and whether they’re as theory-shatteringly huge as they seem. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology)/Image processing: G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center at the University of Copenhagen)

What the Webb Telescope’s ‘Universe breaker’ galaxies can tell us about the early cosmos

Hubble Space Telescope image of diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, a galaxy that's missing most, if not all, of its dark matter. Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. van Dokkum (Yale University)

If dark matter is ubiquitous, why do some galaxies seem to contain none at all?

Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) .Canvas. Photo by Imagno/Getty Images

Isaac Newton: life and discoveries of the great British scientist