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Glow from the Big Bang Allows Discovery of Distant Black Hole Jet

Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a jet from a very distant supermassive black hole being illuminated by the oldest light in th...

Ultrafast microscope used to make slow-motion electron movie

Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have demonstrated the use of the world's first ultrafast optical microscope, allowing them to probe and visualize mat...

Reproducing the large-scale Universe

Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)

The BOSS survey has scanned the sky measuring the redshifts of more than 1 million galaxies, yielding a three dimensional picture of luminous sources in our Uni...

Quantum mechanics explored in new study

Feb 17, 2016 (JPL)

Here's a love story at the smallest scales imaginable: particles of light. It is possible to have particles that are so intimately linked that a change to one a...

Japan launches satellite to study black holes

Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)

Japan successfully launched a jointly developed space observation satellite on Wednesday tasked with studying mysterious black holes, the country's space agency...

More measurement precision in a short time

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have thoroughly analyzed the noise processes in their optical lattice clock with neutral stront...

The most accurate optical single-ion clock worldwide

Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)

Atomic clock experts from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) are the first research group in the world to have built an optical single-ion clock wh...

Ghost imaging in the time domain could revolutionize disturbance-sensitive signal imaging

Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)

Research results recently presented in the distinguished Nature Photonics journal open up new outlooks on ghost imaging in the time domain. The conventional app...

The universe's primordial soup flowing at CERN

Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers have recreated the universe's primordial soup in miniature format by colliding lead atoms with extremely high energy in the 27 km long particle acce...

Biophysics: Partitioning by collision

Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)

An ensemble consisting of a binary mixture of particles of equal size can partition itself into its component fractions - provided that the two species differ i...

Blast from black hole in a galaxy far, far away

Feb 03, 2016 (SPX)

The Star Wars franchise has featured the fictitious "Death Star," which can shoot powerful beams of radiation across space. The universe, however, produces phen...

Polar vortices observed in ferroelectric

Feb 02, 2016 (SPX)

The observation in a ferroelectric material of "polar vortices" that appear to be the electrical cousins of magnetic skyrmions holds intriguing possibilities fo...

A new magnetoresistance effect occurring in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers of the Nanodevices group, in collaboration with groups from the CFM and DIPC, both institutions also located in Donostia-San Sebastian, have discove...

Solving hard quantum problems: Everything is connected

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Quantum systems are extremely hard to analyse if they consist of more than just a few parts. It is not difficult to calculate a single hydrogen atom, but in ord...

Bringing time and space together for universal symmetry

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

New research from Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics is broadening perspectives on time and space. In a paper published in the prestigious journa...

Anti-hydrogen origin revealed by collision simulation

Jan 28, 2016 (SPX)

Antihydrogen is a particular kind of atom, made up of the antiparticle of an electron - a Positron - and the antiparticle of a Proton - an antiproton. Scientist...

How to clock the beginning of the Universe

Jan 27, 2016 (SPX)

While the Big Bang theory has been a very successful model of the birth of our universe, astrophysical observations found that it does require very special init...

New Theory Turns Back Clock on Conditions Behind Universe's Origin

Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)

In a new study, scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas and their colleagues suggest a novel way for probing the beginning of space and time, potentia...

Neutral result charges up antimatter research

Jan 25, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists of the international ALPHA Collaboration have once again pushed the boundaries of antimatter research with their latest breakthrough studying the pro...

Watching electrons cool in 30 quadrillionths of a second

Jan 25, 2016 (SPX)

Two University of California, Riverside assistant professors of physics are among a team of researchers that have developed a new way of seeing electrons cool o...