Double Cosmic Explosion Gives Birth to Unprecedented ‘Superkilonova’
When massive stars die, they go out in fiery explosions called supernovas. On rarer occasions, two nearly dead…
“The Model That We Started Off With is Wrong”: Astronomers Say These Odd Blue ‘Optical Transients’ Aren’t What We Thought They Were
Unusual blue and ultraviolet bursts called luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) have been studied by astronomers for…
Real-world quantum entanglement is far from an unlimited resource – Physics World
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It’s Raining Magnetic ‘Tadpoles’ on the Sun
Getting close to things is one way for scientists to collect better data about them. But that’s been…
Physicist solves fusion reactor problem shown in ‘The Big Bang Theory’
A physicist at the University of Cincinnati was able to crack a problem that was presented as unsolvable…
Ask Ethan: Can stars form within the expanding Universe?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Unprecedented discovery: astronomers find largest spinning structure in the Universe that defies models
A new study has revealed something extraordinary at the heart of the cosmic web: a massive chain of…
Did Astronomers Just Find a ‘Superkilonova’ Double Explosion? Maybe.
Astronomers may have just seen the first ever ‘superkilonova,’ a combination of a supernova and a kilonova. These…
Two leading experiments reveal combined insights into why matter exists – W&M News
The following story originally appeared on the website for W&M’s School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics. –…
Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients Are Likely Large Black Holes Shredding Their Massive Companions
Nature sends us its signals in the form of light. Astrophysical phenomena emit light in all its forms,…
Atomic system acts like a quantum Newton’s cradle – Physics World
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Scientists spent 10 years chasing a particle that wasn’t there
After ten years of gathering and studying data, an international team of physicists that included researchers from Rutgers…