A 36 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole Detected Thanks To Gravitational Lensing
In 1964, astronomers discovered the first black hole. It’s called Cygnus X-1 and the evidence for its existence…
Spacetime is an idea, not a reality
Physicists often describe spacetime as a container in which the universe unfolds, but this metaphor is misleading and…
Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible
The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near…
Dark matter may have come from a hidden “mirror world”
Physicists can map its gravity, tally its cosmic abundance, and observe its fingerprints in the microwave glow of…
3D image reveals atomic dance moments before molecule explosion
Atoms never stay still. Even in their lowest energy state, they vibrate due to quantum effects. Now, for…
Space ice reveals its secrets – Physics World
Space ice reveals its secrets – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright…
‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party
Those Who Don’t Know The evening before Fuchs and I had lunch, he had given the first official…
13‑billion‑light‑year shadow captured — It’s drifting across the entire universe
Just when humanity feels like it has uncovered a series of cosmological mysteries, the occurrence of something so…
Scientists may finally know why the first stars in the universe left no trace
The first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than we thought, new research hints —…
Quantum “Schrödinger’s Cat” Survives For Mind-Blowing 23 Minutes In Record-Breaking Experiment
States in quantum superposition are notoriously fragile, but researchers in China have reported creating such a state that…
This Homemade “Desktop AI” Has Discovered New Laws of Physics, Overturning Decades of Plasma Science
In a peer-reviewed study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), physicists at Emory University…
Magneto-hydrodynamic behavior of magnetic nanofluids in mini-channel heat sinks for electronics cooling
Thermal management has become a crucial issue in system design and reliability in the age of highly efficient…