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Physicists discover family of tetraquarks

Jul 12, 2016 (SPX)

Physicists in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences have made science history by confirming the existence of a rare four-quark particle and disco...

Alma finds a swirling, cool jet that reveals a growing, supermassive black hole

Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)

A Chalmers-led team of astronomers have used the Alma telescope to make the surprising discovery of a jet of cool, dense gas in the centre of a galaxy located 7...

2016 Will Be One Second Longer

Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)

On December 31, 2016, a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds ...

Aftermath of Star Being Swallowed by Supermassive Black Hole

Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)

Radio astronomers have used a radio telescope network the size of the Earth to zoom in on a unique phenomenon in a distant galaxy: a jet activated by a star bei...

The energy spectrum of particles will help make out black holes

Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, and the National Research University ...

Large Hadron Collider finds three new particles, confirms fourth

Jul 05, 2016 (UPI)

Europe's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is back in action. According to two newly published studies, its latest round of experiments y...

Method for Identifying Black Holes Connects Einstein's Equations with Observations

Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)

Rochester Institute of Technology professors have developed a faster, more accurate way to assess gravitational wave signals and infer the astronomical sources ...

Clandestine Black Hole May Represent New Population

Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large...

Simulations foresee hordes of colliding black holes and gravitational waves

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

New calculations predict that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) will detect approximately 1,000 mergers of massive black holes annu...

NRL astrophysicist probes theory of black-hole accretion

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

Utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), one of the most powerful telescopes in the world, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) astrop...

Gravitational waves could reveal black hole seeds

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

Gravitational waves captured by space-based detectors could help identify the origins of supermassive black holes, according to new computer simulations of the ...

Seeds of black holes could be revealed by gravitational waves detected in space

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists led by Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology ran the huge cosmological simulations that can be used to predict the rate at which ...

Team of super bright galaxies in the early universe

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have identified a family of incredible galaxies that could shed further light on the transformation of the early universe known as the 'epoch of rei...

X-ray echoes of a shredded star provide close-up of killer black hole

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

Some 3.9 billion years ago in the heart of a distant galaxy, the intense tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that passed too close. When X-rays p...

Seeds of supermassive black holes could be revealed

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

Gravitational waves captured by space-based detectors could help identify the origins of supermassive black holes, according to new computer simulations of the ...

RIT professor predicts a universe crowded with black holes

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

A new study published in Nature presents one of the most complete models of matter in the universe and predicts hundreds of massive black hole mergers each year...

Russian physicists create a high-precision 'quantum ruler'

Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)

Physicists from the Russian Quantum Center (RQC), MIPT, the Lebedev Physical Institute, and L'Institut d'Optique (Palaiseau, France) have devised a method for c...

Dormant Black Hole Eats Star, Becomes X-Ray Flashlight

Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)

Roughly 90 percent of the biggest black holes in the known universe are dormant, meaning that they are not actively devouring matter and, consequently, not givi...

Researchers refine method for detecting quantum entanglement

Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)

RMIT quantum computing researchers have developed and demonstrated a method capable of efficiently detecting high-dimensional entanglement. Entanglement in quan...

Swift Satellite Used to Chase Colliding Black Holes

Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists from the University of Leicester have revealed they have been involved in the search of the distant universe for the counterpart to a second gravitat...