A Supernova That Shouldn’t Exist
When stars at least thirty times the mass of our Sun reach the end of their lives, astronomers…
CERN team solves decades-old mystery of light nuclei formation – Physics World
CERN team solves decades-old mystery of light nuclei formation – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…
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
Morgan, D. Surface Acoustic Wave Filters: With Applications to Electronic Communications and Signal Processing (Academic Press, 2010). Hashimoto,…
Trapping of single atoms in metasurface optical tweezer arrays
Kaufman, A. M. & Ni, K.-K. Quantum science with optical tweezer arrays of ultracold atoms and molecules. Nat.…
Approaching optimal microwave–acoustic transduction on lithium niobate using superconducting quantum interference device arrays
Brubaker, B. M. et al. Optomechanical ground-state cooling in a continuous and efficient electro-optic transducer. Phys. Rev. X…
Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons
Greene, J. E. et al. UNCOVER spectroscopy confirms the surprising ubiquity of active galactic nuclei in red sources…
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…
Emergent topological semimetal from quantum criticality
Fundamental experimental1,2,3,4 and theoretical5,6,7,8 discoveries have led to the development of the flourishing field of topological quantum matter9,10,11,12,13.…
Pew! Pew! YouTuber Builds Sound Laser That Works as ‘Invisible Speaker’
Here’s a shower thought: if light and sound both travel as waves, can you make something that works…
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…
String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy
In selecting a geometry for the compact extra dimensions, for instance, they chose a space that resembles a…