Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae
The solution to the strange flickering problem came when the Liverpool Gravitational Wave Optical Transient Observer collaboration detected…
US team hits record 151 Kelvin superconductivity at ambient pressure
Researchers from the Texas Center for Superconductivity (TcSUH) and the University of Houston (UH) have achieved a breakthrough…
The Mystery of the Universe’s First Black Holes Could Be Solved by ‘Monster Stars’
For years, astronomers have faced a stubborn problem: supermassive black holes were already in place less than a…
The Sun That Never Flips
Here’s something worth thinking about next time you glance up at the sky on a clear day. The…
A black hole and neutron star just collided in a strange oval orbit
Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that a black hole and a neutron star collided while moving…
Only A Supercomputer Can Understand the Extremely Energetic Chaos of a Neutron Star Merger
Neutron stars are the remnants of supernova explosions. They’re known for their extreme density, and it’s often said…
Ask Ethan: How dark will the Universe become?
When it comes to the Universe and everything in it, only one thing is absolutely certain: everything that’s…
Most Energetic Ghost Particle Ever Seen May Have Come From Black Hole Jets : ScienceAlert
Imagine catching a single raindrop and realising it fell from a storm on the other side of the…
Magnetic field-induced momentum-dependent symmetry breaking in a kagome superconductor
Syozi, I. Statistics of kagome lattice. Prog. Theor. Phys. 6, 306–308 (1951). Article ADS MathSciNet Google Scholar Balents,…
Twist-induced orbital chirality in a photonic laser
The combination of two achiral photonic membranes into a twisted bilayer breaks mirror symmetry and induces non-Hermitian coupling…
Universal dynamics and microwave control of programmable resonant electro-optic frequency combs
Li, J., Yi, X., Lee, H., Diddams, S. A. & Vahala, K. J. Electro-optical frequency division and stable…
The 19th-century mathematical clue that led to quantum mechanics
Yet Hamilton’s reputation during his lifetime was built on work he completed much earlier. In the 1820s and…