A Quasar at Cosmic Dawn Flickers into View
Astronomers have detected a flickering quasar called J0439+1634 as it appeared only 850 million years after the Big…
Bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy discovered by citizen scientist
Astronomers have discovered a “remarkable” bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy with an enormous arc-like structure extending nearly 1.8 million light-years…
Can Time Flow in Reverse? A Quantum Breakthrough Challenges Our Assumptions
Scientists have developed quantum control techniques that can suppress or even reverse a quantum system’s perceived arrow of…
Ultrafast, reconfigurable all-optical beam steering and spatial light modulation
Brongersma, M. L. et al. The second optical metasurface revolution: moving from science to technology. Nat. Rev. Electr.…
Are Asteroid-Mass Black Holes Hiding in the Cosmic Gamma-Ray Glow?
There are multiple ways to form black holes. The one most commonly taught in high school physics classes…
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
According to the standard model of cosmology, that expansion rate should be the same no matter how you…
NTHU Researchers Develop World’s Brightest Room-Temperature Single-Photon Source
Insider Brief Researchers at National Tsing Hua University developed a room-temperature single-photon source that emits more than 2.3…
When JWST looked at XLSSC 122, a galaxy cluster 10.4 billion light-years away, it caught gravity bending light from galaxies about 12 billion years in the past, and a dark matter core packed too tightly for cosmic noon
JWST has caught the galaxy cluster XLSSC 122 bending light from galaxies behind it into long blue-gray arcs,…
Twisting Quantum Potential Into Reality
Insider Brief UTS researchers and collaborators developed a twist-based method for controlling quantum light sources in hexagonal boron…
Observation of magnon polarons in the van der Waals itinerant ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2
Park, J.-G. Opportunities and challenges of 2D magnetic van der Waals materials: magnetic graphene? J. Phys. Condens. Matter…
Scientists expected a black hole, but found a giant stellar neutrino factory instead |
For decades, astronomers have looked to black holes as the likely birthplace of the Universe’s most energetic neutrinos.…
Meet Jainendra K. Jain: The first Indian-origin physicist to win the Wolf Prize and transform quantum physics |
In the world of theoretical physics, some ideas solve a problem. Others reshape an entire field. Jainendra K.…