Do Supermassive Black Holes Play With Their Food?
When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), the star’s fate is sealed. The…
Scientists make key breakthrough in pursuit of virtually limitless energy source: ‘Critically important’
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, recently developed a potentially groundbreaking theoretical model with game-changing implications…
ATTRACT celebrates successes at final conference
The initiative helped develop breakthrough detection and imaging technologies and tested a model for innovation in Europe Attendees…
Intermolecular Coulombic decay in liquid water competes with proton transfer and non-adiabatic relaxation
Experimental methods The experiments were performed by combining a monochromatized table-top high-harmonic-generation (HHG) source, a liquid micro-jet and…
Quantitative evaluation of methods to analyze motion changes in single-particle experiments
Datasets and ground truth In order to benchmark the different methods on data with a known ground truth,…
Mesmerizing Fluid “Fireworks” Reveal Clues for Trapping Carbon Underground
Fingering layers are produced by alternative injection of two fluids, i.e., a more viscous dark fluid and a…
The JWST Might Have Found the First Direct-Collapse Black Hole
Astrophysicists don’t know if direct-collapse black holes are real. They were hypothesized to explain how the Universe could…
Physics – Characterizing a Top Superconductor
July 22, 2025• Physics 18, s90 The material with the highest-temperature superconductivity at ambient pressure has received less…
How sperm manage to defy a major law of physics
Tiny organisms live in a world where the usual rules of motion feel upside-down. Water that slips through…
Long axial range 3D single-particle tracking using birefringent substrates
Birefringent characteristics of mica substrates The critical factor for the performance of the feedback-free (i.e., scan-free) single-particle 3D…
First Direct Images of ‘Cosmic Web’ That May Weave Entire Universe
This image is a simulation based on groundbreaking new images captured by an international team of astronomers. The…
Genuine quantum scars in many-body spin systems
Model, classical dynamics, and UPOs — Consider a chain of N spin s particles subject to a magnetic…