World’s largest neutrino detector to track supernova blasts
The world’s largest neutrino detector just got even more powerful after scientists successfully deployed six new strings of…
‘Something [we’ve] been trying to understand for decades’
Material scientists in the Netherlands have whipped up a new compound that has the best qualities of both…
Loudest Gravitational Wave Ever Recorded Reinforces Einstein’s 100-Year-Old Predictions
Scientists have used the loudest gravitational wave signal ever recorded to put Albert Einstein’s century-old theory of general…
Black Hole May Be ‘100 Trillion Times’ More Powerful Than The Death Star : ScienceAlert
Four years ago, astronomers spotted a distant supermassive black hole swallowing an entire star. The star had wandered…
‘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,…