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
Stewart, G. R. Heavy-fermion systems. Rev. Mod. Phys. 56, 755–787 (1984). ADS Google Scholar Bergman, D. L., Wu,…
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…
Two bold dark matter theories could reveal the universe’s missing mass
Two fresh ideas are giving scientists new ways to think about how the universe’s hidden mass came to…
Ocean sediments might support theory that comet impact triggered Younger Dryas cool-off
Examples of Fe-rich and silica-rich impact microspherules (a and b) and metallic dust particles (MDPs; c and d)…
Dwarf Galaxies Like the Magellanic Clouds Have Their Own Small Satellite Galaxies
Understanding the growth and evolution of galaxies is a critical part of cosmology. We know that massive galaxies…
Two New Dark Matter Origin Theories Point To A Hidden Reality And The Universe’s Edge
Dark matter is a hypothetical substance that outweighs regular matter (which makes up us and everything we can…