Three Supermassive Black Holes Found in a Galaxy From the Dawn of the Universe
An AI-generated visualization of a distant galaxy, containing, besides dust, gas, and young stars, three massive, active black…
Researchers Map the Hidden 3D Geometry of a Quantum Wavefunction
An illustration of how researchers used state-of-the-art photoelectron spectroscopy (left-hand side) with a lab-based soft-X-ray light source that…
World’s First Photonic Time Crystal Can Reshape Light in Trillionths of a Second
A THz electromagnetic wave induces strong, fast temporal modulations that realize a photonic time crystal: a crystal lattice…
James Webb Telescope Discovers Hidden Giant Planet in Famous Star System
This artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the…
Scientists Watch Chemistry Unfold Atom by Atom
A UV pulse (purple beam) excites 3-fluoropyridine, while a delayed X-ray pulse (white beam) probes the nitrogen atom…
The Sun contains 55% more silver than astronomers previously thought
Silver makes up only a minute fraction of the Sun, but its abundance carries clues about events that…
New blood test improves colorectal cancer recurrence risk prediction
A single preoperative blood sample may help improve the prediction of recurrence or metastasis in patients with colorectal…
Europe’s First TES Spectrometer Makes Previously Impossible X-Ray Experiments Possible
The superconducting sensors need a temperature below 25 milli Kelvin. This is achieved by using a He4-He3 dilution…
Famous Pink Planet Harbors A Salty Surprise
GJ504b – Grok via astrobiology.com Northwestern University-led astronomers have discovered salty skies surrounding the universe’s famous “Pink Planet.”…
Breakthrough Technique Reveals Atomic Secrets of Record-Breaking Superconductors
Artistic representation of the interior of a diamond anvil cell. A copper-colored, multi-stage Lenz lens is placed on…
Weighing Newborn Planets Using Their Dusty Fingerprints
Simulation of a planet embedded in a protoplanetary disc, causing disc material to pile up in a ring…
Astrometric Exoplanet Detection Survives Solar-like Stellar Contamination
A demonstration of the limitations of the PSPT data processing pipeline, which did not process the limb uniformly…