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Breaking out: How black hole jets punch out of their galaxies

Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)

A simulation of the powerful jets generated by supermassive black holes at the centers of the largest galaxies explains why some burst forth as bright beacons v...

Scientists detect second pair of colliding black holes

Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)

The new window onto the universe just opened a little bit wider. For the second time in history, an international team of scientists and engineers, including No...

Physicists deploy magnetic vortex to control electron spin

Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a way to swiftly and precisely control electron spins at room temperature. The technology, describ...

Physicists measured something new in the radioactive decay of neutrons

Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)

A physics experiment performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has enhanced scientists' understanding of how free neutrons decay in...

Discovery of gold nanocluster 'double' hints at other shape changing particles

Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)

Chemically the same, graphite and diamonds are as physically distinct as two minerals can be, one opaque and soft, the other translucent and hard. What makes th...

UChicago physicists first to see behavior of quantum materials in curved space

Jun 16, 2016 (SPX)

Light and matter are typically viewed as distinct entities that follow their own, unique rules. Matter has mass and typically exhibits interactions with other m...

Black hole fed by cold intergalactic deluge

Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)

The new ALMA observation is the first direct evidence that cold dense clouds can coalesce out of hot intergalactic gas and plunge into the heart of a galaxy to ...

Scientists observe supermassive black hole feeding on cold gas

Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)

At the center of a galaxy cluster, 1 billion light years from Earth, a voracious, supermassive black hole is preparing for a chilly feast. For the first time, a...

This black hole has an appetite for cold, cosmic rain

Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)

An intergalactic gas cloud is sometimes a dish best served cold. In a new study to be published in the journal Nature, a Yale-led team of astronomers found a su...

At the LHC, charmed twins will soon be more common than singles

Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)

In the range of energies penetrated by the LHC accelerator, a new mechanism of the creation of particles is becoming more prominent, say scientists from the Ins...

Why the Deep Space Atomic Clock is key for future space exploration

Jun 10, 2016 (The Conversation)

We all intuitively understand the basics of time. Every day we count its passage and use it to schedule our lives. We also use time to navigate our way to the d...

Black hole deluged by cold intergalactic 'rain'

Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has witnessed a never-before-seen cosmic weather event - a cl...

NIST's super quantum simulator 'entangles' hundreds of ions

Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "entangled" or linked together the properties of up to 219 beryllium ions (charged ...

Algorithm could construct first images of black holes

Jun 09, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Harvard University have developed a new algorithm that could help astronomers...

Black Holes Might Not be Dead-ends After All

Jun 09, 2016 (SPX)

A physical body might be able to cross a wormhole, in spite of the extreme tidal forces, suggests a new study by Rubiera-Garcia, of Instituto de Astrofisica e C...

Revisiting trajectories at the quantum scale

Jun 08, 2016 (SPX)

There is a gap in the theory explaining what is happening at the macroscopic scale, in the realm of our everyday lives, and at the quantum level, at microscopic...

NASA's Hubble finds universe is expanding faster than expected

Jun 06, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the universe is expanding 5 percent to 9 percent faster than expected. "This surprising fin...

Spinning electrons yield positrons for research

Jun 06, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers use accelerators to coax the electron into performing a wide range of tricks to enable medical tests and treatments, improve product manufacturing, ...

Probing the geometry of energy bands

Jun 06, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) have devised a new interferometer to probe t...

Scientists experimentally confirm electron model in complex molecules

Jun 03, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from the Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM-CNR, Italy), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and the University of...