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A new tool in the search for axions
Feb 05, 2021 (SPX)
The group, which usually performs ultra-high precision measurements of the fundamental properties of trapped antimatter, has for the first time used the ultra-s...
How do electrons close to Earth reach almost the speed of light?
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
Hayley Allison, Yuri Shprits and collaborators from the German Research Centre for Geosciences have revealed under which conditions such strong accelerations oc...
Nuclear physicist takes a voyage towards a mythical island
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
The heaviest element found in nature is uranium, with a nucleus containing 92 protons and 146 neutrons. The nuclei of heavier elements become more and more unst...
Extreme black holes have hair that can be combed
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
In fact, black holes can be fully characterized by only three physical quantities: their mass, spin and charge. Since they have no additional "hairy" attributes...
Compelling evidence of neutrino process opens physics possibilities
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
"The neutrino is thought to be at the heart of many open questions about the nature of the universe," said Indiana University physics professor Rex Tayloe. He l...
When galaxies collide
Jan 26, 2021 (SPX)
When you think about gargantuan phenomena such as the collision of galaxies, it might be tempting to imagine it as some sort of cosmic cataclysm, with stars cra...
Record-breaking laser link could help us test whether Einstein was right
Jan 25, 2021 (SPX)
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, Australian researchers teamed up with researchers from the French National Centre for Space Studies (...
Galaxies hit single, doubles, and a triple growing black holes
Jan 25, 2021 (SPX)
Astronomers want to learn more about galactic collisions because the subsequent mergers are a key way that galaxies and the giant black holes in their cores gro...
Scientists find black holes could reach 'stupendously large' sizes
Jan 22, 2021 (SPX)
Whilst there is evidence of the existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei - with masses from a million to ten billion times that of the S...
Search for axions from nearby star Betelgeuse comes up empty
Jan 21, 2021 (SPX)
Axions have so far evaded detection. Physicists predict that if they do exist, they must be produced within extreme environments, such as the cores of stars at ...
Clocking electron movements inside an atom
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
However, on these miniscule timescales, it is extremely difficult to synchronize the X-ray pulse that sparks a reaction in the sample on the one hand and the la...
Evidence of intermediate state of matter between crystal and liquid
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
The theoretical prediction of the intermediate - hexatic - phase was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016: the prize was awarded to Michael Kosterli...
Light-controlled Higgs modes found in superconductors
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
There was the title of a 1993 book by Nobel laureate Leon Lederman that dubbed the Higgs "The God Particle." There was the search for the Higgs particle that la...
X-Rays surrounding 'Magnificent 7' may be traces of sought-after particle
Jan 19, 2021 (SPX)
First theorized in the 1970s as part of a solution to a fundamental particle physics problem, axions are expected to be produced at the core of stars, and to co...
Could we harness energy from black holes
Jan 15, 2021 (SPX)
For the last 50 years, scientists have tried to come up with methods to unleash this power. Nobel physicist Roger Penrose theorized that a particle disintegrati...
'Old Faithful' cosmic eruption shows black hole ripping at star
Jan 13, 2021 (SPX)
Now, an international group of scientists who study space have discovered an astronomical "Old Faithful" - an eruption of light flashing about once every 114 da...
The earliest supermassive black hole and quasar in the universe
Jan 13, 2021 (SPX)
Seen more than 13 billion years ago, this fully formed distant quasar is also the earliest yet discovered, providing astronomers with insight into the formation...
NASA missions help investigate an 'old faithful' active galaxy
Jan 13, 2021 (SPX)
Using data from facilities including NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the scientists have studied 20 repe...
Discovery of quantum behavior in insulators suggests possible new particle
Jan 12, 2021 (SPX)
The discovery challenges a long-held distinction between metals and insulators, because in the established quantum theory of materials, insulators were not thou...
Researchers use LRZ HPC resources to perform largest-ever supersonic turbulence simulation
Jan 12, 2021 (SPX)
What remains a mystery, however, is a more detailed understanding of how stars and planets formed in the first place. Astrophysicists and cosmologists understan...
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