How Black Holes Slowly Starve Galaxies
Galaxies don’t always die dramatically. Sometimes they fade away, slowly strangled by the very black holes at their…
The Surprising Heat of Early Clusters
Galaxy clusters aren’t supposed to be scorching hot when they’re young. Like infants, they should need time to…
A Supernova That Shouldn’t Exist
When stars at least thirty times the mass of our Sun reach the end of their lives, astronomers…
Emergent topological semimetal from quantum criticality
Fundamental experimental1,2,3,4 and theoretical5,6,7,8 discoveries have led to the development of the flourishing field of topological quantum matter9,10,11,12,13.…
New study suggests the end of the world could come sooner than expected
According to three Dutch researchers, the cosmos could fade away in roughly 10⁷⁸ years — a shockingly short…
An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser
Morgan, D. Surface Acoustic Wave Filters: With Applications to Electronic Communications and Signal Processing (Academic Press, 2010). Hashimoto,…
Flare as bright as 10 trillion Suns caused by supermassive black hole consuming an enormous star
Astronomers have broken two records at once by spotting the largest and the most distant flare ever seen,…
Trapping of single atoms in metasurface optical tweezer arrays
Kaufman, A. M. & Ni, K.-K. Quantum science with optical tweezer arrays of ultracold atoms and molecules. Nat.…
Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons
Greene, J. E. et al. UNCOVER spectroscopy confirms the surprising ubiquity of active galactic nuclei in red sources…
A Study Appears to Stunningly Contradict Newton and Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update…
Scientists Produced New Dimensions of Light, 37 of Them, to Be Exact
In a groundbreaking quantum optics experiment, researchers have produced a particle of light that simultaneously exists across 37…
Pew! Pew! YouTuber Builds Sound Laser That Works as ‘Invisible Speaker’
Here’s a shower thought: if light and sound both travel as waves, can you make something that works…