New research shines light on how stars end their lives and the distant Universe
© Credit: NASA/Swift/Cruz deWilde
The jets pierce through the star, emitting X-rays and gamma rays as…
Deep beneath the French Alps, scientists hunt for dark matter
A DAMIC-M detector module with four CCDs. The module is enclosed in a high-purity copper frame for installation…
Summer students shine at CERN
CERN’s 2025 Summer Student programmes welcomed 341 young scientists and engineers from more than 100 nations to experience…
Physics flipped upside down — Scientists manage to create negative mass
Negative mass was something physicists never thought they would find – let alone create. For more than a…
New Insights in Today’s Research Notes on 3I/ATLAS | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeAvi Loeb’s research notes on 3I/ATLAS (August 24, 2025).…
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…