Accidental double zoom reveals millimeter waves around supermassive black hole
Artist’s rendering of the corona around a black hole. Credit: RIKEN An international team of astronomers led by…
Scientists think they detected the first known triple black hole system in the universe — and then watched it die
Chinese astronomers may have discovered a never-before-seen triple black hole system. The team identified this triplet, which is…
Unleashing the Quantumness of a Nanoparticle
August 19, 2025• Physics 18, s107 Researchers have expanded the quantum wave function of a levitated nanosphere, a…
Transforming the tip of a mechanical pencil lead into a high-quality electron beam source
Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that graphitizing the fractured surface of a mechanical pencil lead enables…
Quantum entanglement follows same rules across all dimensions
Quantum entanglement is incredibly difficult to understand, even scientists, but a new study shows it follows the same…
Theoretical study reveals failure of key quark-gluon plasma probe in low-energy region
Scaling of hadronic elliptic flow as a function of center-of-mass energy in heavy-ion collisions. The top (bottom) panels show…
Fast X-ray transient EP240315A from a Lyman-continuum-leaking galaxy at z ≈ 5
Petroff, E., Hessels, J. W. T. & Lorimer, D. R. Fast radio bursts. Astron. Astrophys. Rev. 27, 4…
Mathematical model reveals how collapsing matter and expanding voids shape universe’s evolution
The plot represents the new model with the x-axis and the y-axis showing the minimum sizes of collapsing…
Ultra-thin materials twist light into optical vortices for faster data transmission
Passing circularly-polarized light through certain van der Waals materials causing the beam to spiral. Credit: Jaegang Jo et…
Coherent control of magnon–polaritons using an exceptional point
Goryachev, M. et al. High-cooperativity cavity QED with magnons at microwave frequencies. Phys. Rev. Appl. 2, 054002 (2014).…
Scientists discover new phenomenon in chiral symmetry breaking
Novel spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking with in a single crystal. Credit: Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a single…
A Distant Star Explodes While Swallowing Its Black Hole Companion
Interactions between supernovae and black holes must be exceedingly rare. But that’s the only explanation for a very…