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Extraordinary black hole found in neighboring galaxy
Jan 25, 2022 (SPX)
"We have very good detections of the biggest, stellar-mass black holes up to 100 times the size of our sun, and supermassive black holes at the centers of galax...
RIT scientists confirm a highly eccentric black hole merger for the first time
Jan 22, 2022 (SPX)
Eccentric orbits are a sign that black holes could be repeatedly gobbling up others during chance encounters in areas densely populated with black holes such as...
TACC supercomputers help scientists probe vortices and turbulence
Jan 22, 2022 (SPX)
Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists peer deeper into the mysterious characteristics of vortices and turbulence, in recent studies by Texas Tech Uni...
Scientists make first detection of exotic X particles in quark-gluon plasma
Jan 22, 2022 (SPX)
In the chaos before cooling, a fraction of these quarks and gluons collided randomly to form short-lived "X" particles, so named for their mysterious, unknown s...
Hubble Finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
A decade ago this small galaxy set off debate among astronomers as to whether dwarf galaxies were home to black holes proportional to the supermassive behemoths...
For the first time, scientists rigorously calculate three-particle scattering from theory
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
For scientists, producing these less-common particles in experiments is an interesting challenge. A new theory method aids in those efforts by predicting which ...
There are 40 billion billions of Black Holes in the Universe!
Jan 19, 2022 (SPX)
How many black holes are out there in the Universe? This is one of the most relevant and pressing questions in modern astrophysics and cosmology. The intriguing...
DESI maps more galaxies than all previous surveys combined
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), has capped off the first seven months of its survey by smashing through all previous records for three-dimensio...
Understanding the cold spot in the cosmic microwave background
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
Now scientists might have an explanation for the existence of an especially cold region in the afterglow, known as the CMB Cold Spot. Its origin has been a myst...
Black hole at center of Milky Way unpredictable and chaotic
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
Sagittarius A* is a strong source of radio, X-rays and gamma rays (visible light is blocked by intervening gas and dust). Astronomers have known for decades tha...
Photon pairs are more sensitive to rotations than single photons
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
"Our experimental results demonstrate a simple but powerful way of custom-tailoring two-photon quantum states and holds promise for applications that can achiev...
Are astronomers seeing a signal from giant black holes?
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
Gravitational Waves ripple through spacetime at a light-year-scale, and could originate from mergers of the most massive black holes in the Universe-or from eve...
New theory finds upcoming satellite mission will be able to detect more than expected
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
Cosmologists believe that in its very early stages, the Universe underwent a very rapid expansion called "cosmic inflation". A success story of this hypothesis ...
Cosmic explosions offer new clue to how stars become Black Holes
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
Most very large stars explode in a fiery supernova explosion that leaves behind a neutron star in a process frequently witnessed by Earth's most powerful telesc...
Astronomers identify potential clue to reinonization of universe
Jan 11, 2022 (SPX)
The universe's reionization is well known, but determining how it happened has been tricky. To learn more, astronomers have peered beyond our Milky Way galaxy f...
Mini monster black hole could hold clues to giant's growth
Jan 11, 2022 (SPX)
Researchers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to identify a black hole containing about 200,000 times the mass of the Sun buried in gas and dust in the gala...
Physicists detect a hybrid particle held together by uniquely intense glue
Jan 11, 2022 (SPX)
Now MIT physicists have detected another kind of hybrid particle in an unusual, two-dimensional magnetic material. They determined that the hybrid particle is a...
Super-resolved imaging of a single cold atom on a nanosecond timescale
Jan 07, 2022 (SPX)
The cold atom system is an ideal experimental platform for studying quantum physics, as well as an important physical system for experimental research on quantu...
Physicists watch as ultracold atoms form a crystal of quantum tornadoes
Jan 06, 2022 (SPX)
But in the quantum world, the behavior of individual atoms is governed by the eerie principle that a particle's location is a probability. An atom, for instance...
Resolving the black hole 'fuzzball or wormhole' debate
Jan 05, 2022 (SPX)
"What we found from string theory is that all the mass of a black hole is not getting sucked in to the center," said Samir Mathur, lead author of the study and ...
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