Solving the Mystery of Blue Flashes
The universe occasionally produces flashes of light so bright and so blue that they outshine entire galaxies, then…
Scientists Produced New Dimensions of Light, 37 of Them, to Be Exact
In a groundbreaking quantum optics experiment, researchers have produced a particle of light that simultaneously exists across 37…
A physicist discovers that all objects, even soap bubbles, break in the same pattern.
The distribution of fragments of a shattering object becomes predictable Fragmentation has long been of interest to scientists,…
Chinese scientists confirm 87-year-old quantum-mechanics prediction, opening new path for lighter dark matter searches
The atom Photo: VCG Chinese scientists have for the first time directly observed the Migdal effect in neutron-nucleus…
JWST interferometric imaging reveals the dusty torus obscuring the supermassive black hole of Circinus galaxy
Observations Circinus was observed (ID: 4611; PI: Lopez-Rodriguez, E.) on 20240715 and 20250427 using the Aperture Masking Interferometry…
Impact of electronic correlations on the superconductivity of high-pressure CeH9
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Aliens might not have the same physics as us
If we ever meet aliens, would their physics be the same as ours? While this might seem like…
How Black Holes Slowly Starve Galaxies
Galaxies don’t always die dramatically. Sometimes they fade away, slowly strangled by the very black holes at their…
The Surprising Heat of Early Clusters
Galaxy clusters aren’t supposed to be scorching hot when they’re young. Like infants, they should need time to…
A Study Appears to Stunningly Contradict Newton and Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update…
Flare as bright as 10 trillion Suns caused by supermassive black hole consuming an enormous star
Astronomers have broken two records at once by spotting the largest and the most distant flare ever seen,…
An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser
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