The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole
For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr…
Simulation showing what it would look like to go around Earth at the speed of light is absolutely wild
This simulation showed what it would look like if you went around Earth at the speed of light,…
Record-breaking gravitational wave puts Einstein’s relativity to its toughest test yet — and proves him right again
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What is Quantum Teleportation? How scientists made a breakthrough for the first time
In 2024, researchers achieved what was long thought impossible: quantum teleportation over the internet. A quantum state of…
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
Thus the wave function can’t tell us what the quantum system is like before we measure it. By…
What’s Really Behind This Unexplained Particle Decay? Scientists Say It’s Something Big!
A surprising and rare particle decay has left scientists puzzled as kaons, particles made up of quarks, are…
On-chip non-Hermitian cavity quantum electrodynamics
Chen, H.-Z. et al. Revealing the missing dimension at an exceptional point. Nat. Phys. 16, 571–578 (2020). Article …
America’s Largest Particle Collider Just Shut Down. Here’s What Happens Next
As foretold, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—among the most powerful heavy-ion colliders in the world, second only to…
Quantum imaging with correlated photon pairs
Strekalov, D., Sergienko, A., Klyshko, D. & Shih, Y. Observation of two-photon “ghost” interference and diffraction. Phys. Rev.…
Helical metasurfaces based on topological surface states in three-dimensional photonic topological insulators
Huber, S. D. Topological mechanics. Nat. Phys. 12, 621 (2016). Article CAS Google Scholar Yang, Z. et al.…
Scientists Caught Sperm Ignoring a Major Physical Law : ScienceAlert
Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton’s third law…
Controversy that has divided quantum physics since 1927 is settled
A single trapped atom has been used to carry out Einstein’s proposed test of the double-slit experiment, a…