TIME SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Monster black hole wakes up after 26 years

Jun 28, 2015 (ESA)

Over the past week, ESA's Integral satellite has been observing an exceptional outburst of high-energy light produced by a black hole that is devouring material...

Giving atoms their marching orders

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Chemistry professor Linda Shimizu oversees a series of crowd-pleasing chemistry demonstrations in middle and high schools throughout central South Carolina ever...

How the brightest lights in the universe 'flicker'

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

Supermassive black holes pull in gas with great force from their surroundings. As the gas rotates around the black hole, it becomes progressively hotter through...

X-raying ion channels

Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)

"In this field, x-ray crystallography is considered the ultimate form of evidence: if something is demonstrated with this technique, then it just has to be true...

Destructive power of bubbles could lead to new industrial applications

Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)

Virginia Tech engineers have shed light on what happens to a nearby particle when bubbles burst. Sunghwan Jung, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering...

NASA's Hubble sees the 'teenage years' of quasars

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope's infrared vision to uncover the mysterious early formative years of quasars, the brightest objects in the univ...

Mass of strange atomic nucleus measured with very high precision

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

An international team of physicists working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany has measured the mass of...

Aalto University researchers predicted existence of new quantum matter theoretically

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Finland's Aalto University researchers have succeeded to predict, in theory, that superconducting surfaces can become topological superconductors when magnetic ...

VLA reveals 'bashful' black hole in neighboring galaxy

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Thanks to the extraordinary sensitivity of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have detected what they believe is the long-sought radio emiss...

ALMA weighs supermassive black hole at center of distant spiral galaxy

Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)

Supermassive black holes lurk at the center of every large galaxy. These cosmic behemoths can be millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun. Determ...

Scientists are first to see elements transform at atomic scale

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

Chemists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences, collaborating with PerkinElmer and UCL (University College London), have witnessed atoms of one chem...

Scientists tune X-rays with tiny mirrors

Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)

The secret of X-ray science - like so much else - is in the timing. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have created...

What's on the surface of a black hole?

Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)

Are black holes the ruthless killers we've made them out to be? Samir Mathur says no. According to the professor of physics at The Ohio State University, the re...

Argonne scientists announce first room-temperature magnetic skyrmion bubbles

Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)

New ideas are bubbling up for more efficient computer memory. Researchers at UCLA and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory announced a ne...

Einstein saves the quantum cat

Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)

In 1915 Albert Einstein formulated the theory of general relativity which fundamentally changed our understanding of gravity. He explained gravity as the manife...

Slip sliding away: Graphene and diamonds prove a slippery combination

Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found a way to use tiny diamonds and graphene to give friction the slip, creating...

Chandra Finds Evidence for Serial Black Hole Eruptions

Jun 14, 2015 (SPX)

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to show that multiple eruptions from a supermassive black hole over 50 million years have rearranged the ...

Scientists see ripples of a particle-separating wave in primordial plasma

Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists in the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, http://www.?bnl.?gov/?rhic/?), a particle accelerator exploring nuclear physi...

Putting 2 and 2 together

Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at Princeton have developed a cobalt-catalyzed [2p+2p] reaction that may give unprecedented access to cyclobutanes, four-membered ring-containing mo...

Tiny but precise: The most accurate quantum thermometers

Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists have defined the smallest, most accurate thermometer allowed by the laws of physics - one that could detect the smallest fluctuations in microscopic ...