New research shows a neutrino laser is impossible | MIT News
Neutrinos are the pervasive yet intangible particles that permeate the universe, streaming through whole planets, stars, and our…
On the hunt for dark matter | MIT News
Physicists across the globe are on a quest for a particle that makes up nearly 85 percent of…
Diffuse puffs of “missing” matter surround most galaxies | MIT News
Stars and galaxies make up much of the universe’s ordinary, observable matter. But for decades, scientists have wrestled…
Many black holes had past lives, new research shows | MIT News
When a star dies, a black hole is born. This has been the textbook origin story for most…
Graphene can hold multiple states of superconductivity, a new study finds | MIT News
The ordinary graphite in pencil lead is proving to be surprisingly multifaceted at the microscale. In a study…
Listening for the echoes of black holes | MIT News
Black holes are often misunderstood to be just that: dark and mysterious voids that are somehow akin to…
MIT astronomers discover the earliest known flickering quasar | MIT News
A supermassive black hole lies at the heart of every galaxy, including the Milky Way. When a black…
A new way to spot signs of dark matter | MIT News
Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way…
Astronomers pin down the origins of a planetary odd couple | MIT News
Across the Milky Way galaxy, a planetary odd couple is circling a star some 190 light years from…
Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle | MIT News
When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists’ understanding of the universe can tip into the…
Electrons in moiré crystals explore higher-dimensional quantum worlds | MIT News
The electrons that power our society flow left and right through the circuitry in our electronics, back and…
“Near-misses” in particle accelerators can illuminate new physics, study finds | MIT News
Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of…