Faint black hole ‘ringing’ provides a sharper test of Einstein’s gravity
When two black holes crash together, the violence does not end at impact. The newly formed black hole…
The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has a mass of 4 million suns, and the entire solar system is orbiting it at 514,000 mph without anyone on Earth feeling a thing
The headline number for the object at the center of the Milky Way is four million solar masses,…
Why is rubber so resilient? – Physics World
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The “impossible” LED that could change everything
Scientists have developed a surprising new way to power materials that normally cannot conduct electricity, opening the door…
Schrödinger’s clock: Time could tick faster and slower at the same time
Few concepts in physics are as familiar, or as puzzling, as time itself. Einstein’s theory of relativity showed…
Switchable skyrmions light up terahertz communications – Physics World
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The Milky Way’s Turbulence Distorts Light from Distant Quasars
10 billion light-years away, a blazar blasts out powerful radio emissions aimed directly at Earth. Plasma close to…
A strange ripple in spacetime could be the first fingerprint of dark matter
Dark matter is believed to make up most of the matter in the universe, yet scientists still cannot…
Electron-Ion Collider becomes first particle collider built with AI from day one
Five hundred thousand times per second, the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will record a collision. At that rate, machine…
Forget electrons, this breakthrough uses light-matter particles to power AI
Eighty years after the creation of ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer, researchers at the University of…
Meet the ghost particle: invisible, weightless and trillions of them pass through your body every second
In recent decades, scientists have turned their attention to an elusive ghost-like subatomic particle known as the neutrino.…
Layer photovoltaic effect in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet with parity–time symmetry
Polman, A., Knight, M., Garnett, E. C., Ehrler, B. & Sinke, W. C. Photovoltaic materials: present efficiencies and…