The Universe’s First Stars Unveiled in Turbulent Simulations
Understanding the early Universe is a foundational goal in space science. We’re driven to understand Nature and how…
A Mission To Visit A Black Hole Could Be Done In A Human Lifetime, Astrophysicist Says
Alas, we do not live in Star Trek; the speed of light, as far as we can tell,…
Kinetic turbulence drives MHD equilibrium change via 3D reconnection
The 3D helical flux ropes in VEST Two essential magnetic field components, the poloidal and toroidal fields, are…
Fast optical control of a coherent hole spin in a microcavity
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A ‘mysterious giant’ behind binary black holes? Astronomers uncover first evidence of a third compact object
Gravitational wave events released by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. Credit: SHAO The binary black holes in the universe are…
Quarter- and half-filled quantum Hall states and their topological orders revealed by daughter states in bilayer graphene
Our devices (device 1 and device 2) consist of BLG encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and graphite…
Breakthrough acoustic shield cancels noise without airflow loss
A new innovation from Boston University’s Zhang Lab could reshape how we manage noise in the modern world.…
Frustrated electron hopping from the orbital configuration in a two-dimensional lattice
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An Astrophysicist Proposes We Send a Spacecraft to Visit a Black Hole : ScienceAlert
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the Universe – a reputation not helped by…
Some young suns align with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted
Artist’s rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA’s Hubble Telescope.…
Neither light nor heat… but radiation
If I ask you to tell me what comes to your mind when I tell you the word…
Archaeologists find oldest evidence of humans on ‘Hobbit’s’ island neighbor—who they were remains a mystery
Stone tools were excavated from Calio, Sulawesi, and dated to over 1.04 million years ago. The scale bars…