A 2-Million-Solar-Mass Black Hole Just Gave Up Its Deepest Secret
The feat was made possible by XRISM’s high-resolution “Resolve” instrument, working in tandem with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s…
Cosmic dust: “too much, too soon” no longer!
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Astronomers Discover a Bright Supernova Using Gravitational Lensing for the First Time
Gravitational Lensing is a vital tool for astronomers to observe objects that are too distant or faint (or…
We Emit a Visible Light That Vanishes When We Die, Surprising Study Says : ScienceAlert
Life truly is radiant, according to an experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Calgary and the…
Faraday Effects Emerging From The Optical Magnetic Field
As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field.…
Do all stars exist in galaxies?
Back to Article List From the January 2026 issue Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies,…
All-nitride superconducting qubits based on atomic layer deposition
Nakamura, Y., Pashkin, Y. A. & Tsai, J. S. Coherent control of macroscopic quantum states in a single-Cooper-pair…
Black holes are twisting the universe: New discovery shows Einstein was right |
Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy…
Astronomers Stunned By Ultra-Hot Galaxy Cluster Just 1.4 Billion Years After Big Bang
A newly discovered galaxy cluster, blazing with unexpectedly hot gas just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang,…
“This Discovery Changes How We Think About the Quantum World”: Physicists Reveal New Evidence of Quantum Particles Working Together
Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien ) and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have…
Optical control of orbital magnetism in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
Cao, Y. et al. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 43–50 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar …
An old theorem explains the polarization and entanglement of light
Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper…