Unveiling the Turbulent ‘Teenage Years’ of the Universe
Combining data from different telescopes is one of the best ways to get a fuller picture of far-off…
Excitonic negative refraction mediated by magnetic orders
Withers, F. et al. Light-emitting diodes by band-structure engineering in van der Waals heterostructures. Nat. Mater. 14, 301–306…
A Black Hole Just Came Back to Life After 100 Million Years, And It’s Bigger Than You Think!
Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery in the galaxy J1007+3540, where a supermassive black hole has begun emitting…
World’s first ‘graviton trap’ aims to solve century-old physics mystery
Physicists from Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University have launched an experimental program to detect gravitons —…
They captured a gamma-ray burst lasting just 10 seconds, and the question is no longer what it was, but how it could have traveled almost 13 billion years to arrive right now
For barely ten seconds in March 2025, a burst of high-energy light slammed into the detectors of a…
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to…
Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across…
Solving the Mystery of Blue Flashes
The universe occasionally produces flashes of light so bright and so blue that they outshine entire galaxies, then…
Ask Ethan: Why do gravitational lenses make crosses, not rings?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Chinese scientists unlock possible key to dark matter after almost 90 years
Chinese scientists have made the first direct observation of a quantum effect that was proposed almost 90 years…
What can you do with 380 million Higgs bosons? – CERN Courier
What is the fate of the universe? Why is there more matter than antimatter? What lurks beyond the…
Coherent nonlinear X-ray four-photon interaction with core-shell electrons
Mukamel, S., Healion, D., Zhang, Y. & Biggs, J. D. Multidimensional attosecond resonant X-ray spectroscopy of molecules: lessons…