TIME SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

A telescope larger than the Earth makes a sharp image of the formation of black hole jets

Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)

But how these jets form in the first place has been a long-standing mystery. One of the main difficulties in studying them has been astronomers' inability to im...

ALPHA test records most precise direct measurement of antimatter

Apr 05, 2018 (UPI)

And yet, the cosmos' biggest mystery remains unsolved: why do we exist? As part of the ALPHA experiment, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Res...

Gravitational waves created by black holes in the centre of most galaxies

Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)

When there is a change in air pressure on Earth, this change moves outwards in the form of sound waves. Analogously, when pairs of compact objects - like black ...

Astrophysicists map the infant Universe in 3D and discover 4000 early galaxies

Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)

Looking back in time to 16 different epochs between 11 and 13 billion years ago, the researchers discovered almost 4000 early galaxies, many of which will have ...

Making Heisenberg's uncertainty principle uncertain

Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)

Remarkably, this intrinsic limitation can be relaxed when measurements extract periodic functions of position and momentum with a characteristic length and mome...

Months-long real-time generation of a time scale based on an optical clock

Mar 30, 2018 (SPX)

The resultant "one-second" was more accurate than that of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on that date, and the time deviated by 0.8 ns in half a year relative...

High-energy ions' movement affected by silicon crystal periodicity

Mar 30, 2018 (SPX)

All of these rely on our understanding of how positively-charged high-energy particles move through crystals. This process, called ion channelling, is the focus...

Putting quantum scientists in the driver's seat

Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)

The researchers' experimental results were recently published in Physical Review B Rapid Communication and Optics Letters. Quantum information is considered fra...

Unresolved puzzles in exotic nuclei

Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)

In this review published in EPJ A, Terry Fortune from the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, USA, discusses the structure of unstable and unbound form...

High-sensitivity 3-D technique unveiled using single-atom measurements

Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)

Using highly miniaturised segmented-style Fresnel lenses - the same design used in lighthouses for more than a century - which enable exceptionally high-quality...

Understanding gravity: The nanoscale search for extra dimensions

Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)

A team of researchers has now used the world's highest intensity neutron beamline facility, at J-PARC in central Japan, to push the limits of sensitivity for th...

Neutrino experiment sets the stage for deep discovery about matter

Mar 27, 2018 (SPX)

This accomplishment is critical to developing and proposing a much larger future experiment - with approximately a ton of detectors - to study the nature of neu...

MSU-based scientists dedicated the birth of a new black hole to Stephen Hawking

Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)

Usual telescopes are unable to point to gamma-ray bursts error-boxes fast enough to monitor the change in its brightness and obtain any information about its so...

Simulation opens prospects for obtaining ultra-dense electron-positron plasmas

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

The work on the PICADOR software system started in 2010. PICADOR is a parallel implementation of the particle-in-cell method that has been optimized for modern ...

Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists from MIT and Johns Hopkins University have now detected radio signals from the event that match very closely with X-ray emissions produced from the s...

Scientists separate atoms with smallest sieve ever

Mar 20, 2018 (UPI)

When pushed through the tiny gap between the layers of 2D materials like hexagonal boron nitride or molybdenum disulphide, the atoms of two different hydrogen i...

Stephen Hawking: a brief history of genius

Mar 14, 2018 (AFP)

Born on January 8, 1942 -- 300 years to the day after the death of the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei -- he believed science was his destiny. But fat...

Double or Nothing: Astronomers Rethink Quasar Environment

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

In the universe, galaxies are not distributed uniformly. There are some places, known as clusters, where dozens or hundreds of galaxies are found close together...

'Red and dead' NGC 1277 offers insights on the early universe

Mar 13, 2018 (UPI)

Formed some 12 billion years ago, the NGC 1277 galaxy birthed all of its stars within a span of 100 million years -- a star formation rate 1,000 times greater t...

The occurrence of magnetism in the universe

Mar 13, 2018 (SPX)

It will be carried out in the new DRESDYN facility at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), an independent German research laboratory. A recently pub...