This massive 3D map of 47 million galaxies could unlock dark energy
Scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in their effort to understand dark energy by completing observations for the…
Exceptional deficiency of non-Hermitian systems
Bender, C. M. & Boettcher, S. Real spectra in non-Hermitian Hamiltonians having PT symmetry. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80,…
Darkness can travel faster than light – Physics World
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Scientists simulate quantum vacuum decay that could end the universe
Physicists have successfully simulated false vacuum decay, a quantum process theorized to be capable of ending the universe…
What are dark galaxies? Astronomers expose 70 hidden candidates with no visible stars
Examples of the four categories used to classify HI sources: optical counterpart (O), nearby galaxy (N), unsure (X),…
Shape of electrons is revealed for the first time in big quantum leap
For the first time, researchers have measured the shape of an electron as it moves through a solid.…
Breakthrough Crystal Lets Scientists “Write” Nanoscale Patterns With Light
A 532-nm continuous-wave laser “sculpted” microscopic patterns onto a flake of As2S3, including a monochromatic portrait of Albert…
A quantum-coherent photon–emitter interface in the original telecom band
Wang, H., Ralph, T. C., Renema, J. J., Lu, C.-Y. & Pan, J.-W. Scalable photonic quantum technologies. Nat.…
Tiny Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Reflect The Conditions In The Early Universe
We don’t know for sure how many dwarf galaxies are attached to the Milky Way because they’re dim…
A Cosmic Survey Reveals the Universe’s Hidden Side
A team of scientists at the University of Virginia is using data from an instrument in Arizona to…
A Different Kind Of Ultrasonic Levitation
Ultrasonic levitation is by now a familiar trick: one or more ultrasonic transducers create a standing wave, and…
Did decaying dark matter help create the universe’s first supermassive black holes?
New research suggests that supermassive black holes that existed before the cosmos was 1 billion years old may…