Gravitational lensing sheds new light on Hubble constant controversy – Physics World
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The First Law of Thermodynamics Has Been Rewritten
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The law is a bedrock of physics, but has…
Scientists Just Built an Atom That Shouldn’t Exist or Work, But It Does, and It Changes Everything
Known as giant superatoms, these structures combine multiple oversized artificial atoms, allowing them to interact with light across…
Hawking predicted it — Experts now say time itself will end on this date, long after humans are gone
Stephen Hawking was right all along. As the universe is currently in constant expansion, moving beyond what humans…
Excitonic negative refraction mediated by magnetic orders
Withers, F. et al. Light-emitting diodes by band-structure engineering in van der Waals heterostructures. Nat. Mater. 14, 301–306…
A Black Hole Just Came Back to Life After 100 Million Years, And It’s Bigger Than You Think!
Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery in the galaxy J1007+3540, where a supermassive black hole has begun emitting…
World’s first ‘graviton trap’ aims to solve century-old physics mystery
Physicists from Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University have launched an experimental program to detect gravitons —…
A practical Bayesian method for gravitational-wave ringdown analysis with multiple modes
Abbott, B. P. et al. Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. Phys. Rev. Lett.…
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to…
Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across…
Ask Ethan: Why do gravitational lenses make crosses, not rings?
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Chinese scientists unlock possible key to dark matter after almost 90 years
Chinese scientists have made the first direct observation of a quantum effect that was proposed almost 90 years…