Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Over the past decade, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network has…
Super-resolution stimulated X-ray Raman spectroscopy
Rohringer, N. et al. Atomic inner-shell X-ray laser at 1.46 nanometres pumped by an X-ray free-electron laser. Nature…
AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.
If the AI’s insights had been available when LIGO was being built, “we would have had something like…
Israeli-led team first to observe star survive black hole and return
An international team led by astronomers from Tel Aviv University observed a light flash from a star being…
Primordial black hole flybys could alter exoplanet orbits
An artist’s illustration of primordial black holes. If they exist, they could alter the orbits of exoplanets and…
New technique using Raman scattering can dramatically improve laser linewidth for better quantum computing
Model structure with superimposed forward (upper) and backward (lower) pump propagation. The black arrows indicate the phonon field…
Professor Emeritus Daniel Kleppner, highly influential atomic physicist, dies at 92 | MIT News
Daniel Kleppner, the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT whose work in experimental atomic physics made…
Rabi-like splitting arises from nonlinear interactions between magnons in synthetic antiferromagnet
Schematic illustration of synthetic antiferromagnet, two oscillation modes (optical and acoustic modes), and non-linear magnon coupling of two…
Scientists create an “impossible” time crystal using giant atoms
In 2012, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek asked whether the symmetry that arranges atoms in an ordinary crystal might…
The Elongated Image of 3I/ATLAS. Images of the new interstellar object… | by Avi Loeb | Jul, 2025
(Image credit: Alarcon et al., TtT) Images of the new interstellar object 3I/ATLAS (posted in papers here, here,…
Big-Bang echoes unmask a billion-light-year hole around Earth—and it’s stretching space faster
Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos…
Astrophysicists Detect Gravitational Waves from Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date
Using twin detectors of NSF’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), astrophysicists with the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration have detected…