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August 05, 2025
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Beyond the Shadow of a Black Hole



Austin TX (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
he first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object from the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87 - 55 million light years from Earth. Supercomputer simulations are now helping scientists sharpen their understanding about the environment beyond a black hole's 'shadow,' material just outside its event horizon. "Ever since we made that first black hole image, there's been a lot of work trying to understand the environment just arou ... read more

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Black hole wave analysis refined using advanced WKB method
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
Black holes, the most gravitationally extreme objects in the universe, emit space-time ripples called quasinormal modes when disturbed - vibrations that can be detected as gravitational waves. These ... more
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Webb reveals hidden galaxy populations in revisited deep field
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
Webb has returned to the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field, providing astronomers with an unprecedented mid-infrared perspective of one of the most studied regions in the sky. Using nearly 100 hours of ... more
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Galactic Center magnetic field offers new insight into stellar evolution dynamics
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
A new study of the Sagittarius C region in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone has revealed a detailed portrait of the galactic magnetic field, offering fresh insight into how dense gas clouds, s ... more
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NASA installs key 'sunblock' shield on Roman Space Telescope
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's inner segment. Along with the observatory's Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cove ... more
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New particle model opens overlooked pathway in dark matter search
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
A team of physicists from the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil has introduced a new theoretical framework that could advance the search for dark matter by focusing on inelastic particles that ... more
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Sun dogs, other celestial effects could appear in alien skies
Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
Ice crystals in Earth's atmosphere sometimes align just right to create various striking visual effects, from a halo around the moon, to bright spots called sun dogs on either side of the sun in a w ... more
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Scientists and engineers build radio telescope bound for the Moon
Brookhaven NY (SPX) Jul 30, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the "major item of equipment" phase for the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night (LuSEE-Night), a moon-b ... more
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Chemistry that shaped the cosmos revealed in helium hydride reaction study
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 30, 2025
Immediately following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was a searing cauldron of energy and particles. Within seconds, temperatures dropped enough for the first elements - most ... more

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Ultrasmall optical devices rewrite the rules of light manipulation
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2025
In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of lig ... more
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Light driven visual microphone offers new tool for silent sound detection
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a novel type of microphone that captures sound using light, offering a low-cost solution for detecting audio in situations where tra ... more
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Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 30, 2025
The experiment in question is the double-slit experiment, which was first performed in 1801 by the British scholar Thomas Young to show how light behaves as a wave. Today, with the formulation of qu ... more
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One billion years of protein evolution reveals surprising design flexibility
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Proteins, the molecular machines of life, are constructed from 20 amino acids in seemingly infinite combinations-up to 10^78 possible sequences for a 60-residue protein. Yet only a tiny subset fold ... more
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Building blocks of life found in distant star system suggest origins in interstellar space
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has detected 17 complex organic molecules in the protop ... more
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CTAO telescope uncovers fresh evidence for layered jet structures in historic gamma ray burst
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
The CTAO LST Collaboration has unveiled critical insights into gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets following detailed analysis of GRB 221009A-the most luminous GRB ever observed. The results, published in Th ... more
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Paris, France (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
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XRISM mission maps sulfur distribution across Milky Way
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
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Flash frozen silicon reveals patterns mirroring early universe dynamics
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 24, 2025
A team of physicists from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), University of Duisburg-Essen, and University of Alberta has discovered that ultra-fast cooling of silicon surfaces produces str ... more
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Atypical cosmic radio source spins up and defies conventional theories
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
Astronomers have discovered a highly unusual space object named CHIME J1634+44, a Long Period Radio Transient (LPT) exhibiting behavior never before seen in this class of cosmic phenomena. Led by Fe ... more
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NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
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Nuclear timekeeping may reveal hidden traits of dark matter
London, UK (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
For nearly a hundred years, scientists have sought dark matter, the unseen material believed to account for 80 percent of the universe's mass. Despite extensive efforts-including particle accelerato ... more
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The secret life of neutrinos
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun. These elementary particles come in three known "flavors": electron, muon and ... more
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Supersonic gas filaments discovered in fast-moving Milky Way cloud
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
A team of astronomers has revealed an intricate network of supersonic gas filaments within a very-high-velocity cloud (VHVC) in the Milky Way, using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio T ... more
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Alien life clues may emerge from deep sea volcanic vents on Earth
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2025
NASA has awarded $621,000 to University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden to investigate what life might look like on Europa, Jupiter's ice-covered moon. To pursue answers, Holden ... more
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Astronomers discover blazing Betelgeuse has companion star
Paris (AFP) July 21, 2025
Since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians, people across the world have gazed up in awe at Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars blazing in the night sky. ... more
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Astronomers observe birth of a solar system for first time
Paris (AFP) July 16, 2025
Astronomers said Wednesday they had observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, revealing a process that sheds light on the birth of our own solar system. ... more
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Cold atom experiment validates Fermi acceleration predicted in cosmic ray theory
London, UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2025
Scientists have achieved a major milestone in astrophysics by recreating a process theorized over 70 years ago: Fermi acceleration, the key mechanism behind cosmic ray generation. Using ultracold at ... more
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Milky Way may host scores of hidden faint satellite galaxies
London, UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2025
Cosmologists at Durham University suggest the Milky Way may be surrounded by up to 100 more faint satellite galaxies than previously observed, based on high-resolution supercomputer simulations and ... more
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How airports like Heathrow and Gatwick could help aliens spot Earth
London, UK (SPX) Jul 11, 2025
Radar systems used by civilian airports and military operations are inadvertently revealing our existence to potential advanced alien civilisations, new research shows. The study explored how ... more
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'Ice in a volcano' reveals age of gas cloud at Milky Way's center
Raleigh, NC (SPX) Jul 08, 2025
Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds - or Fermi bubbles - at the Milky Way's center. The finding challenges current models of Fermi bubble fo ... more
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James Webb reveals sub-Saturn mass exoplanet in young star system
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 11, 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged a previously unknown exoplanet, marking a significant milestone since the telescope's launch in 2022. Led by a CNRS researcher at the Observ ... more
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Researchers claim Earth, Milky Way are trapped in cosmic void
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 10, 2025
Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the Big Bang. ... more
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