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Oxymoronic Black Hole Provides Clues to Growth

Aug 13, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-meter Clay Telescope in Chile have identified the smallest supermassive black hole ever detected ...

Researchers explain why the Greenwich prime meridian moved

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

In 1884, a delegation of international representatives convened in Washington, D.C. to recommend that Earth's prime meridian (the north-south line marking zero ...

Droplets levitate on a cushion of blue light

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers in France have discovered a new way to levitate liquid droplets, which surprisingly also creates a mini light show, with the droplet sparking as it ...

Atomic mass difference solution paves way to the neutrino mass

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

To measure the mass of neutrinos, scientists study radioactive decays in which they are emitted. An essential ingredient is the decay energy which corresponds t...

Engineered bacterium produces 1,3-diaminopropane

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

A Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of...

Copper clusters capture and convert carbon dioxide to make fuel

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

Capture and convert--this is the motto of carbon dioxide reduction, a process that stops the greenhouse gas before it escapes from chimneys and power plants int...

CMR induced in pure lanthanum manganite

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

Colossal magnetoresistance is a property with practical applications in a wide array of electronic tools including magnetic sensors and magnetic RAM. New resear...

Powerful New Black Hole Probe Arrives at Paranal

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

A new instrument called GRAVITY has been shipped to Chile and successfully assembled and tested at the Paranal Observatory. GRAVITY is a second generation instr...

Hubble finds evidence of galaxy star birth regulated by black-hole fountain

Aug 10, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe's largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth. ...

Fermilab experiment sees neutrino oscillation

Aug 08, 2015 (UPI)

The NOvA experiment at Fermilab is already proving a success. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have reported ...

Molecular trick alters rules of attraction for non-magnetic metals

Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists have demonstrated for the first time how to generate magnetism in metals that aren't naturally magnetic, which could end our reliance on some rare an...

Super star takes on black holes in jet contest

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

A super-dense star formed in the aftermath of a supernova explosion is shooting out powerful jets of material into space, research suggests. In a new study, a t...

Scientists offer explanation for electron heat loss in fusion plasma

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Creating controlled fusion energy entails many challenges, but one of the most basic is heating plasma - hot gas composed of electrons and charged atoms - to ex...

York scientists unlock secrets of stars through aluminium

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists at the University of York have revealed a new understanding of nucleosynthesis in stars, providing insight into the role massive stars play in the ev...

Neutron stars strike back at black holes in jet contest

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Some neutron stars may rival black holes in their ability to accelerate powerful jets of material to nearly the speed of light, astronomers using the Karl G. Ja...

World's quietest gas lets physicists hear faint quantum effects

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have cooled a gas to the quietest state ever achieved, hoping to detect faint quantum effects lost in the ...

Dense star clusters shown to be binary black hole factories

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

The coalescence of two black holes -- a very violent and exotic event -- is one of the most sought-after observations of modern astronomy. But, as these mergers...

A new litmus test for chaos?

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? This intriguing question - the title of a talk given by MIT meteorologist Edward Lore...

Identifying ever-growing disturbances leading to freak waves

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists like to study unusual kinds of waves, like freak waves found in the sea. Such wave movements can be studied using models designed to describe the dyn...

Treasure hunting in archive data reveals clues about black holes' diet

Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)

Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, as well as from the XMM-Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, a team of astronomers at the Max Planck Inst...