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Astronomers detect a black hole on the move

Mar 15, 2021 (SPX)

Now, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have identified the clearest case to date of a supermassive black hole in motion. Thei...

Mechanical cosmos recreated inside world's first analogue computer

Mar 12, 2021 (UPI)

One of the most sophisticated engineering feats to have survived from the ancient world, the 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism was used by Greek astronomers ...

Microscopic wormholes possible in theory

Mar 10, 2021 (SPX)

Wormholes, like black holes, appear in the equations of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916. An important postulate of Einstein's ...

How fast is the universe expanding? Galaxies provide one answer

Mar 09, 2021 (SPX)

A new estimate of the local expansion rate - the Hubble constant, or H0 (H-naught) - reinforces that discrepancy. Using a relatively new and potentially more pr...

Establishing the origin of solar-mass black holes and the connection to dark matter

Mar 09, 2021 (SPX)

Multiple gravitational wave detections of merging black holes have been identified within the last few years by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Obse...

Most distant cosmic jet providing clues about early universe

Mar 09, 2021 (SPX)

The studies indicate that the quasar - a galaxy harboring a black hole 300 million times more massive than the Sun - has a jet of fast-moving particles only abo...

Will this solve the mystery of the expansion of the universe

Mar 04, 2021 (SPX)

Physicists agree on this much, but something is wrong. Measuring the expansion rate of the universe in different ways leads to different results. So, is somethi...

USTC detects a sharp rise in detection rate of broad absorption line variations

Mar 04, 2021 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for the first time detected a "sharp rise" si...

Through the looking glass: artificial molecules open door to ultrafast polaritonic devices

Mar 02, 2021 (SPX)

Polaritons are quantum particles that consist of a photon and an exciton, another quasiparticle, marrying light and matter in a curious union that opens up a mu...

Big Data to model the evolution of the cosmic web

Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)

The IAC researcher, a co-author of the article and leader of the group of Cosmology and Large Scale Structure (LSS) Francisco-Shu Kitaura explains that one of t...

Scientists propose a new heavy particle similar to the Higgs boson

Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)

Scientists from the University of Granada (UGR) and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) have recently published a study in which they endeavour to...

Swift helps tie neutrino to star-shredding black hole

Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)

"Astrophysicists have long theorized that tidal disruptions could produce high-energy neutrinos, but this is the first time we've actually been able to connect ...

Scientists link star-shredding event to origins of universe's highest-energy particles

Feb 23, 2021 (SPX)

The work, which included researchers from more than two dozen institutions, including New York University and Germany's DESY research center, focused on neutrin...

First black hole ever detected is more massive than we thought

Feb 19, 2021 (SPX)

An international team, including researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), recently found that the ste...

New form of crystalline ice may help learn about hydrogen bonds

Feb 18, 2021 (UPI)

Researchers described the exotic ice form in a new paper, published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications. Almost all naturally occurring frozen water o...

Supercomputer turns back cosmic clock

Feb 17, 2021 (SPX)

They found that together with new observations the method can set better constraints on inflation, one of the most enigmatic events in the history of the Univer...

Scientists manipulate magnets at the atomic scale

Feb 15, 2021 (SPX)

Physicist Dr Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy from Lancaster University said: "With stalling efficiency trends of current technology, new scientific approaches are espec...

Hubble uncovers concentration of small black holes

Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)

When Eduardo Vitral and Gary A. Mamon of the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris set out to study the core of NGC 6397, they expected to find evidence for an "int...

Quantum causal loops

Feb 10, 2021 (SPX)

Now researchers from the University of Oxford and the Universite libre de Bruxelles have developed a theory of causality in quantum theory, according to which c...

Charge radii of exotic potassium isotopes challenge nuclear structure theory

Feb 05, 2021 (SPX)

Isotopes were studied by using the collinear resonance ionization spectroscopy technique. The results indicated that the potassium isotope with a neutron number...