‘Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way’s heart’
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous…
A New Class of Stellar Explosions
Astronomers have recently made an exciting discovery: SN 2024abfl, a low-luminosity Type IIP supernova in the galaxy NGC…
Isaac Newton, scientist and inventor: “A man can imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true”
Isaac Newton, born December 25, 1642, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, is widely regarded as one of history’s most…
US team’s fusion plasma heat control method to protect tokamak walls
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame the destructive energy bursts…
No Sign of Gravitational Waves From Single Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Yet
The universe is a big place, and tracking down some of the more interesting parts of it is…
Scientists Continue to Trace the Origin of the Mysterious “Amaterasu” Cosmic Ray Particle
Cosmic rays, or astroparticles, are a means through which astronomers can explore the Universe. These charged particles, which…
Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk Finalists
Here’s something you rarely see so up close. The photograph above shows one of 18 optical modules inside…
Simulation showing what it would look like to go around Earth at the speed of light is absolutely wild
This simulation showed what it would look like if you went around Earth at the speed of light,…
Stephen Hawking, scientist: “Quiet and silent people are the ones who have the strongest and loudest minds”
Stephen William Hawking was a British theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, Hawking…
What is Quantum Teleportation? How scientists made a breakthrough for the first time
In 2024, researchers achieved what was long thought impossible: quantum teleportation over the internet. A quantum state of…
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
Thus the wave function can’t tell us what the quantum system is like before we measure it. By…
What’s Really Behind This Unexplained Particle Decay? Scientists Say It’s Something Big!
A surprising and rare particle decay has left scientists puzzled as kaons, particles made up of quarks, are…