TIME SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Astronomers find an abundance of Milky Way-like Galaxies in early Universe

Sep 26, 2023 (SPX)

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of researchers including those at The University of Manchester and University of Victoria in ...

Shh! Quiet cables set to help reveal rare physics events

Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)

Around the world more than a dozen teams are listening for the pops and electronic sizzle that might mean they have finally tuned into the right channel. These ...

Electrons take flight at the nanoscale

Sep 25, 2023 (SPX)

It has been known theoretically for about 80 years that when electrons travel around bends, they tend to heat up because their flow lines get squished locally. ...

Quantum science: shaken, driven, dropped, and flown

Sep 19, 2023 (ESA)

Quantum entanglement occurs at subatomic scales when two particles, such as a pair of photons, can remain connected even when separated by vast distances. Once ...

Harnessing high-dimensional quantum states

Sep 19, 2023 (SPX)

Now, enter quantum dots (QDs), tiny particles with big potential. A team of researchers from Sapienza University of Rome, Paris-Saclay University, and Universit...

Supermassive black holes alter galactic chemistry

Sep 18, 2023 (SPX)

It is well known that active supermassive black holes can produce major changes their host galaxies by heating up and removing the interstellar gas in the galax...

Webb confirms accuracy of Universe's expansion rate as measured by Hubble

Sep 15, 2023 (SPX)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope provides new capabilities to scrutinize and refine some of the strongest observational evidence for this tension. Nobel Laurea...

Matter comprises of 31% of the total amount of matter and energy in the universe

Sep 15, 2023 (SPX)

"The team used a well-proven technique to determine the total amount of matter in the universe, which is to compare the observed number and mass of galaxy clust...

The universe caught suppressing cosmic structure growth

Sep 12, 2023 (SPX)

They also showed that as dark energy accelerates the universe's global expansion, the suppression of the cosmic structure growth that the researchers see in the...

Ravenous black hole consumes star every time it passes by

Sep 11, 2023 (SPX)

The team was supported by the UK Space Agency and the UK Science and technology Facilities Council (STFC). The astronomers were alerted to the star by a bright ...

How does MAD accretion form around a black hole?

Sep 04, 2023 (SPX)

Key to their discovery was the observation that the radio emission from the black hole jet and the optical emission from the outer region of the accretion flow ...

Dreaming of waves

Aug 30, 2023 (SPX)

"I've often asked this question," the eminent wave scientist Walter Munk told MIT Professor Stefan Helmreich several years ago. "If we met somebody from another...

Golden rules for building atomic blocks

Aug 30, 2023 (SPX)

Moire patterns are formed when two identical periodic structures are overlaid with a relative twist angle between them or two different periodic structures but ...

How a cup of water can unlock the secrets of our Universe

Aug 24, 2023 (SPX)

In 2020, the same team found that the viscosity of liquids is determined by fundamental physical constants, setting a limit on how runny a liquid can be. Now th...

Rewriting the past and future of the universe

Aug 22, 2023 (SPX)

It is well established that the Universe is expanding. But with no landmarks in space, it is difficult to accurately measure how fast it is expanding. So, astro...

Ringing protons give insight into early universe

Aug 22, 2023 (SPX)

Now, an experiment to explore the 3D structures of resonances of protons and neutrons at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator F...

Alternative models could clarify Universe's expansion debate

Aug 22, 2023 (SPX)

Because of this debate, an international team led by Dr. Maria Dainotti, assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and affili...

Using supernovae to study neutrinos' strange properties

Aug 17, 2023 (SPX)

One of the less well-understood elementary particles, neutrinos rarely interact with normal matter, and instead travel invisibly through it at almost the speed ...

How sound can be transmitted through vacuum

Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)

At the heart of their research is the concept of sound waves "tunneling" through a vacuum gap, provided the solids on either side are piezoelectric. For those l...

After capturing image of black hole, what's next?

Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)

Last month some of those researchers, engineers, and physicists convened at Harvard to consider and begin drawing up plans for the next step: a closer study of ...