Why Are Supermassive Black Holes Growing So Slowly?
As our powerful infrared telescopes allow astronomers to peer further and further back in time, they’ve discovered some…
Physicists just solved a strange fusion mystery that stumped experts
Scientists have struggled for years to explain a curious pattern inside tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines designed to one…
These Pretty Light Cones Actually Represent Einstein’s Theory of Spacetime Relativity
Elliot McGucken These photos of 70-foot-tall light cones shimmering over the Californian desert may look beautiful, but scratch…
The Darkness Inside It : ScienceAlert
For the first time, physicists have observed that ‘holes’ in light can move faster than the light itself.…
‘Project Hail Mary’s’ Relativity Problem Is More Complicated Than You Think
When Ryland Grace reaches Tau Ceti in Project Hail Mary, about four years have passed for his human…
New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang
One of the greatest unsolved problems in physics concerns unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity—two equally successful theories…
Rare Gravitational Wave Discovery May Hold the Key to First Evidence of Primordial Black Holes
esearchers may have detected the first direct evidence of primordial black holes, potentially reshaping our understanding of dark…
Groundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big Bang
A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the…
Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter, Validating a Violent Cosmic Collision Theory
Astronomers have long argued that dark matter is the invisible scaffolding that holds galaxies together. Without its immense…
CERN Timepix chips fly to the Moon
Six Timepix chips developed at CERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the…
Full space-time ultrafast self-focusing of spherical Airy wavepackets
Olarte, O. E., Andilla, J., Gualda, E. J. & Loza-Alvarez, P. Light-sheet microscopy: a tutorial. Adv. Opt. Photonics…
Fusion power unlikely to become competitive
Governments are committing substantial public funding to nuclear fusion power as a potential source of safe, dispatchable low-carbon…