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XMM-Newton spots monster black hole hidden in tiny galaxy
Dec 20, 2014 (ESA)
First impressions can be deceptive - astronomers have used ESA's X-ray satellite XMM-Newton to find a massive black hole hungrily feeding within a tiny dwarf ga...
Choreography of an electron pair
Dec 19, 2014 (SPX)
Physicists are continuously advancing the control they can exert over matter. A German-Spanish team working with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for N...
'Perfect Storm' Quenching Star Formation around a Supermassive Black Hole
Dec 18, 2014 (SPX)
High-energy jets powered by supermassive black holes can blast away a galaxy's star-forming fuel, resulting in so-called "red and dead" galaxies: those brimming...
Physicists explain puzzling particle collisions
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
An anomaly spotted at the Large Hadron Collider has prompted scientists to reconsider a mathematical description of the underlying physics. By considering two f...
Tag Heuer changes tune, now looking at smartwatches
Dec 16, 2014 (AFP)
Barely a few months after dismissing Apple's smartwatch, the new chief executive of luxury Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer conceded Tuesday that such a hi-tech gadge...
Fraud-proof credit cards possible with quantum physics
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
Credit card fraud and identify theft are serious problems for consumers and industries. Though corporations and individuals work to improve safeguards, it has b...
ESA and Omega: a watch for astronauts
Dec 15, 2014 (ESA)
Swiss watchmaker Omega has announced a new version of its historic space watch, tested and qualified with ESA's help and drawing on an invention of ESA astronau...
Researchers use real data rather than theory to measure the cosmos
Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)
For the first time researchers have measured large distances in the Universe using data, rather than calculations related to general relativity. A research team...
Scientists measure speedy electrons in silicon
Dec 15, 2014 (SPX)
The entire semiconductor industry, not to mention Silicon Valley, is built on the propensity of electrons in silicon to get kicked out of their atomic shells an...
Electron pairs on demand
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
In quantum optics, generating entangled and spatially separated photon pairs (e.g. for quantum cryptography) is already a reality. So far, it has, however, not ...
45-year physics mystery shows a path to quantum transistors
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
An odd, iridescent material that's puzzled physicists for decades turns out to be an exotic state of matter that could open a new path to quantum computers and ...
World record for compact particle accelerator
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
Using one of the most powerful lasers in the world, researchers have accelerated subatomic particles to the highest energies ever recorded from a compact accele...
Secondary relaxation in metallic glasses key glassy physics
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
Humans have been experimenting with and utilizing glassy materials for more than ten millennia, dating back to about 12000 B.C. Although glassy materials are th...
Laser-plasma 'tabletop' particle accelerator sets record
Dec 09, 2014 (UPI)
Researchers have accelerated particles to unheard-of speeds using a record-setting compact accelerator. The device was developed by researchers at the U.S. Depa...
Finding the simple patterns in a complex world
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
An ANU mathematician has developed a new way to uncover simple patterns that might underlie apparently complex systems, such as clouds, cracks in materials or t...
ADS assembles most precise clock ensemble ever for operation in space
Dec 08, 2014 (SPX)
It may not look like a clock, but that's exactly what it is. By assembling the ACES (Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space), Airbus Defence and Space is creating a "su...
Einstein documents digitization project complete
Dec 05, 2014 (UPI)
Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can now explore more than 80,000 pages of documents left behind by the world's most famous physics genius, Alb...
Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common methods measure relative distances, but now re...
Van der Waals force re-measured
Nov 27, 2014 (SPX)
Although the van der Waals force was discovered around 150 years ago, it is still difficult to quantify when predicting the behaviour of solids, liquids, and mo...
Study details laser pulse effects on behavior of electrons
Nov 27, 2014 (SPX)
By solving a six-dimensional equation that had previously stymied researchers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicists have pinpointed the characteristics of ...
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