Why Cosmic ‘Dark Matter’ Is Living On Borrowed Time
The odds of finding any sort of smoking gun for non-baryonic (or exotic) dark matter — the missing…
Hubble and Euclid Team Up To Identify A Dark Matter Galaxy
Everybody knows that galaxies are large structures made of stars. That’s a simple definition, and ignores the fact…
This Tiny Glass Square Could Store 2 Million Books of Data For 10,000 Years : ScienceAlert
Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading…
How Supermassive Black Holes Stifle Star Formation In Neighbouring Galaxies
Astronomers know that supermassive black holes (SMBH) can inhibit star formation. These behemoths, which seem to be present…
Statistical localization of U(1) lattice gauge theory in a Rydberg simulator
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The investigation could solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so large in the early universe.
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have hunted for “wandering” black holes drifting through…
A spinning gyroscope could finally unlock ocean wave energy
Ocean waves represent one of the largest and most consistent sources of renewable energy on Earth. Despite their…
Scientists Detect Particles in Another Dimension, And Physics May Never Be the Same
The research, presented in two papers in Physical Review A, describes adjustable exchange statistics and a method to…
Higher-dimensional Fermiology in bulk moiré metals
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An exciton crystal in a moiré excitonic insulator
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This Galaxy Is 99% Dark Matter—and Basically Invisible
Dark matter doesn’t emit, absorb, or reflect light. It’s invisible but supposedly makes up 85% of the universe’s…
Physicists recreated the first millisecond after the Big Bang — and found it was surprisingly soupy
Heavy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have revealed the faintest trace of a wake left by…