Three Supermassive Black Holes Found in a Galaxy From the Dawn of the Universe
An AI-generated visualization of a distant galaxy, containing, besides dust, gas, and young stars, three massive, active black…
Researchers Map the Hidden 3D Geometry of a Quantum Wavefunction
An illustration of how researchers used state-of-the-art photoelectron spectroscopy (left-hand side) with a lab-based soft-X-ray light source that…
World’s First Photonic Time Crystal Can Reshape Light in Trillionths of a Second
A THz electromagnetic wave induces strong, fast temporal modulations that realize a photonic time crystal: a crystal lattice…
James Webb Telescope Discovers Hidden Giant Planet in Famous Star System
This artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the…
Scientists Watch Chemistry Unfold Atom by Atom
A UV pulse (purple beam) excites 3-fluoropyridine, while a delayed X-ray pulse (white beam) probes the nitrogen atom…
Europe’s First TES Spectrometer Makes Previously Impossible X-Ray Experiments Possible
The superconducting sensors need a temperature below 25 milli Kelvin. This is achieved by using a He4-He3 dilution…
Breakthrough Technique Reveals Atomic Secrets of Record-Breaking Superconductors
Artistic representation of the interior of a diamond anvil cell. A copper-colored, multi-stage Lenz lens is placed on…
High-precision laser spectroscopy confirms proton is smaller than expected, at 0.84 fm
Physicists at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have reinforced a measurement that runs counter to decades…
In a World-First, Scientists Directly Observe Elusive “Dark Excitons”
The TR-ARPES setup used in the research. Credit: Jeff Prine (OIST) Using one of the world’s most advanced…
Scientists trace rare nuclei ‘island’ where physics rules break apart
Researchers at CERN have made a great step forward in revealing how atomic nuclei behave after they mapped…
Astronomers Capture Most Detailed Thousand-Color Image of a Galaxy
This image shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s…
New laser helps decode rare earth element samarium’s secret spectrum
Scientists in Germany have uncovered previously unknown properties of the rare Earth element samarium by developing a powerful…