XRISM Provides the Sharpest Image to Date of a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and…
China’s “artificial sun” just broke a fusion limit scientists thought was unbreakable
Scientists working with China’s fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have successfully reached a long-theorized “density-free regime”…
Astronomers stunned as our supermassive black hole displays unprecedented behavior
Using the unmatched power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and an extended observation window, astronomers have…
Even Black Holes May Not Fully Hide Quantum Entanglement
Insider Brief A new theoretical study finds that quantum entanglement may remain distinguishable in principle even after one…
Scientists Made a Quantum Leap and Entered a New Kind of Matter, and It Lasted Two Seconds
First proposed in the 1920s by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein, the concept of a BEC predicted…
China achieves new milestone in ‘artificial sun’ experiment
Researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) say they have managed to operate the reactor beyond…
How to explain the universe — for beginners
ILLUSTRATION BY PHIL HACKETT Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who is currently working with the Spanish…
The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down
The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long…
Fusion Ignition Breakthrough: Energy Researchers Report Tokamak Experiments That Exceed Mysterious ‘Plasma Density Limit’
In a potential new milestone for fusion energy research, researchers in China report achieving a state once only…
Earth-like Planets Need a Cosmic-Ray Bath
It’s quite a challenge to make an Earth-like world. You need enough mass to hold an atmosphere and…
Physicists Turn Quantum Chaos Into Something Surprisingly Useful
Quantum mechanics controls reality on the smallest levels, but when scaled up, it’s often difficult to gauge how…
New Research Reveals how Gravitational Waves Could be Used to Decode Dark Matter
The discovery of Gravitational Waves (GWs) in 2015 confirmed a prediction made by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity…