‘Runaway’ Supermassive Black Hole Has The Mass Of 20 Million Suns
Scientists have discovered the first-ever confirmed “runaway” supermassive black hole (SMBH). The…
Astronomers Find that Black Holes “Seesaw” Between Ejecting Material as Winds or Jets
Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH), which reside at the center of many galaxies (ranging from dwarf to massive), are…
Leading quantum physicist You Chenglong joins cutting-edge Chinese research institute
Physicist You Chenglong has left the United States to take up a full-time position in China after working…
Distorted honeycomb magnet edges closer to a quantum spin liquid
Most magnets are predictable. Cool them down, and their tiny magnetic moments snap into place like disciplined soldiers.…
Driving Floquet physics with excitonic fields
Lloyd-Hughes, J. et al. The 2021 ultrafast spectroscopic probes of condensed matter roadmap. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 33,…
The Universe’s Most Common Water is a Hot Mess
Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing…
China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Broke a Fusion Barrier That Held for Decades
For the first time, researchers have successfully exceeded the Greenwald limit, a critical barrier in plasma density, without…
Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Win Frontiers of Knowledge Award for “Magic Angle” Discovery » MIT Physics
The duo is recognized for the discovery of “twistronics,” a breakthrough in material science that allows scientists to…
Outer Space Is a Viscous Fluid, New Paper Claims
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images There’s endless debate among cosmologists about what really makes…
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to…
Mystery of the Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Solved » Explorersweb
When the James Webb Space Telescope sent back its first images of the cosmos, astronomers were stunned to…
First indirect evidence for primordial monsters – CERN Courier
Collapsing monster Simulation of a primordial monster star giving birth to a quasar – an extremely luminous active…