Pushing China’s EAST Tokamak Past The Greenwald Density Limit
Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density,…
An Object With a Black Hole Core Discovered 11 Billion Light-Years Away
A completely dark, invisible object weighing 1 million times the mass of the Sun has been detected through…
Astronomers Discover the First Galaxy-Wide Wobbling Black Hole Jet
It’s a well-known fact that Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) play a vital role in the evolution of galaxies.…
Supermassive black holes don’t seem to make sense. But the mystery may be solved, and the answer is catastrophic
The question of how black holes grow should be an easy one to answer: they absorb material from…
New Solution to Cosmic Acceleration Challenges Dark Energy Paradigm
Physicists from the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen and the Transylvanian…
The Hidden Lives of the Universe’s Ultramassive Galaxies
The universe’s most massive galaxies present astronomers with a puzzle. Each containing more than 100 billion stars, making…
Teleportation Reaches a Major Milestone Thanks to an Unexpected Discovery with Huge Consequences
An unlikely accomplice just pushed quantum teleportation past a milestone, as teams in Turku and Hefei upend a…
Supersonic shock tests reveal that metals weaken under extreme speeds
US scientists have debunked a 70-year-old physics law that has long guided how engineers make metals stronger, after…
Ghost Particles Interacting With Dark Matter Could Solve a Huge Cosmic Mystery : ScienceAlert
A new investigation of the early Universe led by Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research has just found…
China Cracks the Code on a Fusion Limit Scientists Failed to Beat for Decades
The breakthrough, reported in the journal Science Advances on January 1, comes from a team at the Chinese…
The ultra-cold temperatures needed for epic nuclear science
“[We] want to be one of the technology leaders with this heat exchanger so we started developing it…
Negative Energy ‘Ghosts’ Flashing in Space Could Reveal New Physics : ScienceAlert
A ‘boom’ of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium…