Pushing China’s EAST Tokamak Past The Greenwald Density Limit
Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density,…
An Object With a Black Hole Core Discovered 11 Billion Light-Years Away
A completely dark, invisible object weighing 1 million times the mass of the Sun has been detected through…
Astronomers Discover the First Galaxy-Wide Wobbling Black Hole Jet
It’s a well-known fact that Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) play a vital role in the evolution of galaxies.…
New Solution to Cosmic Acceleration Challenges Dark Energy Paradigm
Physicists from the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen and the Transylvanian…
Supermassive black holes don’t seem to make sense. But the mystery may be solved, and the answer is catastrophic
The question of how black holes grow should be an easy one to answer: they absorb material from…
The Hidden Lives of the Universe’s Ultramassive Galaxies
The universe’s most massive galaxies present astronomers with a puzzle. Each containing more than 100 billion stars, making…
NOvA-T2K studies the most mysterious particles in the universe
The joint NOvA-T2K analysis combined years of data to measure a neutrino mass difference with less than 2%…
Teleportation Reaches a Major Milestone Thanks to an Unexpected Discovery with Huge Consequences
An unlikely accomplice just pushed quantum teleportation past a milestone, as teams in Turku and Hefei upend a…
The ultra-cold temperatures needed for epic nuclear science
Unlike your coffee, though, dilution refrigeration can reach incredibly low temperatures, even down to 5-10 millikelvin. Ultra-low temperature…
Ghost Particles Interacting With Dark Matter Could Solve a Huge Cosmic Mystery : ScienceAlert
A new investigation of the early Universe led by Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research has just found…
China Cracks the Code on a Fusion Limit Scientists Failed to Beat for Decades
The breakthrough, reported in the journal Science Advances on January 1, comes from a team at the Chinese…
Negative Energy ‘Ghosts’ Flashing in Space Could Reveal New Physics : ScienceAlert
A ‘boom’ of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium…