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What happens when you cross the point of no return?
Black holes form when massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and collapse under their own gravity. This collapse…
A quantum gas that refuses to heat—physicists observe many-body dynamical localization
Despite being continually kicked and strongly interacting, the atoms no longer absorb energy. The system localizes in momentum…
Peering Down Through Black Hole’s “Eye Of Sauron” Cosmic Jet Got Earth Hit By Record-Breaking Neutrinos
There is an absolutely incredible cosmic object called PKS 1424+240. It is a blazar, a supermassive black hole…
Researchers observe evidence of hyperbolic exciton polaritons
Hyperbolic region in chromium sulfur bromide (CrSBr): a) The metallized tapping tip of a scattering-type scanning near-field optical…
Luis Walter Alvarez’s eclectic career
Luis Walter Alvarez’s career was marked by two explosions. The first was one the physicist enabled: a plutonium…
Energy-efficient ultracompact laser reduces light loss in all directions
The chip with the hexagon-shaped laser cavities. Credit: NTU Singapore An international team of scientists led by Nanyang…
Astronomers Capture the 'Eye of Sauron' Billions of Light Years Away and It Might Be the Most Powerful Particle Accelerator Ever Found – ZME Science
Astronomers Capture the ‘Eye of Sauron’ Billions of Light Years Away and It Might Be the Most Powerful…
Scientists achieve first observation of phonon angular momentum in chiral crystals
The phonon AM-induced mechanical rotation and torque. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02952-3 In a new study published…
The cosmic giant that shouldn’t exist — 66-billion-sun monster breaks the rules
To a lot of enthusiasts, the figure 66 billion might seem out of reach, but for seasoned astronomers,…
Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere
Light and lifting The researchers then built a few sheets of nanocardboard to test the output of their…
Simultaneous Visible Spectrophotometry Of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS With Seimei/TriCCS
Reflectance spectrum of 3I/ATLAS. Also, Mahlke templates of S-, D- and Z-type asteroids are shown (Mahlke et al.…