Kelvin–Helmholtz Instabilities Found To Drive Plasma Mixing On The Sun
As easy as the Sun is to observe, it’s simultaneously very hard to study due to how extreme…
Quiet Black Holes With a Stellar Companion Raise Questions About How They Form
Active black holes are pretty easy to detect. Their superheated accretion disks emit bright x-rays, and the jets…
New laser design breaks rigid patterns without losing light control
A laser does not always need a perfectly repeating pattern to produce a clean beam. Researchers at the…
Chinese, German scientists build room temperature magnetic sensor
Chinese and German researchers have developed a magnetic sensor to spot magnetic signals much more faint than Earth’s…
Noise that entangles may accelerate the dawn of quantum technologies – Physics World
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Sparrow Quantum Sets Record With 500 Million Usable Photons Per Second
Insider Brief Sparrow Quantum and Ruhr University Bochum developed a deterministic source that delivers more than 500 million…
Magnetism likely played a key role in early solar system formation – Physics World
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Astronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black hole
Astronomers detected delayed X-ray flashes consistent with light reflected from the far side of an accretion disk and…
A Pair of White Dwarfs Locked in a Six-Minute Orbit Might One Day Be Observed By Gravitational Waves
Current gravitational wave observatories aren’t sensitive enough to capture the gravitational waves of binary stars. They can only…
Fusion in the Sun’s core releases neutrinos and high-energy photons together: a neutrino can reach the surface in about two seconds, while the photons’ energy may take roughly 170,000 years to escape after countless scatterings, absorptions and re-emissions.
The sunlight arriving at Earth this moment left the Sun’s visible surface a little over eight minutes ago.…
In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered an electrical effect thought to need a perpendicular magnetic field; 147 years later, scientists have shown it can work with the field in-plane
An atomic force microscopy scan of a nanometer-sized device developed by Carnegie Mellon scientists that demonstrates a new…
Lens Flare and Modern Optical Physics
A bare, uncoated air-to-glass surface sends roughly 4 percent of the light striking it back the way it…