Supermassive black hole spotted awaken from 100 million-year slumber
Researchers have observed a long-dormant black hole being “reborn” in a distant galaxy. Located at the heart of…
Unveiling the Turbulent ‘Teenage Years’ of the Universe
Combining data from different telescopes is one of the best ways to get a fuller picture of far-off…
A New Census of Dwarf Galaxies Shows More Massive Black Holes than Previously Thought
They are known as Active Galactic Nuclei (aka. quasars), the core regions of galaxies that are so bright…
Physicists Outline Technique to Scale Neutral-Atom Quantum Systems Beyond 100,000 Qubits
Insider Brief Researchers at Columbia University report a metasurface-based optical tweezer platform that provides a realistic path to…
Transport evidence for chiral surface states from three-dimensional Landau bands
The studied samples consist of rectilinear bars carved by FIB machining from a bismuth single crystal (Fig. 2).…
Scientists capture first real-time images of electrons breaking bonds
Chemistry textbooks explain how reactions start and end, but they rarely show what happens in between. Seeing these…
Quote of the day by American Physicist Richard P Feynman: ‘I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong’
In a world obsessed with certainty, quick answers, and confident opinions, Richard P Feynman offered a radically refreshing…
Gravitational lensing sheds new light on Hubble constant controversy – Physics World
Gravitational lensing sheds new light on Hubble constant controversy – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…
The First Law of Thermodynamics Has Been Rewritten
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The law is a bedrock of physics, but has…
Myth of wormholes and the quantum meaning of Einstein-Rosen Bridge
For decades, wormholes have been hypothesized as mysterious tunnels that might let us cross galaxies or even time…
Scientists Just Built an Atom That Shouldn’t Exist or Work, But It Does, and It Changes Everything
Known as giant superatoms, these structures combine multiple oversized artificial atoms, allowing them to interact with light across…
A practical Bayesian method for gravitational-wave ringdown analysis with multiple modes
Abbott, B. P. et al. Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger. Phys. Rev. Lett.…