TIME SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)

Computer code called Cosmos now fuels supercomputer simulations of black hole jets and is starting to reveal the mysteries of black holes and other space odditi...

Powerful new telescope observes one of the oldest objects in the universe

Nov 07, 2017 (SPX)

It is the oldest object ever detected by the LMT, says astrophysicist Min Yun at UMass Amherst, and at present there is only one other, slightly older and more ...

Physicists show how lifeless particles can become 'life-like' by switching behaviors

Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)

Physical Review Letters recently published the findings, the first experimental realization of such dynamics. "We've discovered perhaps the simplest physical sy...

A bit of a 'quantum magic trick'

Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)

It turns out there is, in a new discovery published this week in Physical Review Letters by a collaboration between a Washington University in St. Louis profess...

Physicists: The wave properties of particles can manifest in collisions

Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)

Usually the wave properties of particles are well-manifested in physics experiments at low temperatures, for example, in the phenomenon of superconductivity. Be...

Lens trick doubles odds for quantum interaction

Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)

In their experiment, researchers Chin Yue Sum, Matthias Steiner and Christian Kurtsiefer fired a red laser at a carefully-trapped Rubidium atom. They compared h...

Quantum dots visualize tiny vibrational resonances

Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)

With the bow movement, the sand bounces and shifts, collecting along the nodal lines of the vibration. Chladni's discovery of these patterns earned him the nick...

Minor merger kicks supermassive black hole into high gear

Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)

To test their ideas about why the central region of M77 beams massive amounts of radiation, a team of researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Ja...

Chinese scientists measure universe with magic ruler

Oct 31, 2017 (XNA)

With this ruler, Chinese astronomers recently succeeded in reconstructing the evolution history of dark energy based on the observation of over a million galaxi...

NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery

Oct 31, 2017 (JPL)

Astronomers have new clues to this mystery. Using NASA's NuSTAR space telescope and a fast camera called ULTRACAM on the William Herschel Observatory in La Palm...

Scientists penetrate mystery of raging black hole beams

Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)

Now a team of scientists led by the University of Southampton has moved a step closer to understanding these mysterious cosmic phenomena - known as relativistic...

Monster colliding black holes might lurk on the edge of spiral galaxies

Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)

The RIT study identifies an overlooked region that may prove to be rife with orbiting black holes and the origin of gravitational-wave chirps heard by observato...

The most exotic fluid has an unexpectedly low viscosity

Oct 30, 2017 (SPX)

Our everyday world consists of structures built mainly of protons and neutrons, particles each containing three quarks held together by strong interactions conv...

Bringing the atomic world into full color

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

Individual molecules and atoms are much smaller than the wavelengths of light that we can see. Visualizing such tiny structures requires special instruments tha...

Stronger Tests of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity with Binary Neutron Stars

Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)

New, more sophisticated techniques can now search for deviations from general relativity with unprecedented sensitivity. Scientists at the Max Planck Institutes...

Swansea University's physicists develop a new quantum simulation protocol

Oct 23, 2017 (SPX)

However, at atomic and subatomic scales Nature is described by quantum mechanics, formulated around 100 years ago and famously characterised by theoretical phys...

Chaos reigns even in simple electronics

Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)

Just a few transistors, resistors, capacitors and induction coils are enough to build electronic circuits that behave in a virtually unpredictable way. Even in ...

Proton and antiproton share fundamental properties

Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)

Nevertheless, the data do not provide any information about how matter formed in the early universe as particles and antiparticles would have had to completely ...

Spotting the spin of the Majorana fermion under the microscope

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

In the study published this week in the journal Science, the research team described how they enhanced an existing imaging technique, called scanning tunneling ...

'Find the Lady' in the quantum world

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

Imagine that you are playing the game of 'Find the Lady' - in fact, a very simple version of it: The croupier is no hardened con artist, but rather a thoroughly...