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Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, the University of Vienna, and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona have achieved a new ...

Smoking Gun Uncovering Secret of Cosmic Bullets

Mar 03, 2016 (SPX)

LOFAR, the low-frequency array radio telescope, normally receives weak radio waves from the distant universe. But now and then an ultra-short, bright radio puls...

The special theory of relativity has been disproved theoretically

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

This article was sourced through AAAS's news release service. I had assumed it was an exercise in roundabout physics without any junk metaphyics. The original r...

Black holes banish matter into cosmic voids

Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)

We live in a universe dominated by unseen matter, and on the largest scales, galaxies and everything they contain are concentrated into filaments that stretch a...

Object located around a black hole 5 billion light-years from Earth has been measured

Feb 28, 2016 (SPX)

A team of Spanish researchers, with the participation of the University of Granada (UGR), has accurately detected a structure in the innermost region of a quasa...

Controlling ultrafast electrons in motion

Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)

An international team has used the light produced by the Free Electron Laser FERMI at the research Centre Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste in the AREA Science Park t...

LIGO's twin black holes might have been born inside a single star

Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)

On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes 29 and 36 ...

See the cosmos with X-ray vision

Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)

In June 1962, an Aerobee 150 sounding-rocket blasted above the Earth's atmosphere from the White Sands Missile Range in the United States of America. During its...

Researchers demonstrate 'quantum surrealism'

Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)

New research demonstrates that particles at the quantum level can in fact be seen as behaving something like billiard balls rolling along a table, and not merel...

Quantum processes control accurately to several attoseconds

Feb 24, 2016 (SPX)

A team of physicists including Russian researchers succeeded in conducting an experiment in which, for the first time in history, control over ultrafast motion ...

Quantum experiments designed by machines

Feb 24, 2016 (SPX)

Quantum physicist Mario Krenn and his colleagues in the group of Anton Zeilinger from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academ...

On the Hunt for X-ray Signals from the Extragalactic Universe

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

Hunting X-ray signals from the distant universe requires years of strenuous work, a lot of dedicated scientists and an experienced leader to head the scientific...

A quantum device based on geometry

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

While a classical bit found in conventional electronics exists only in binary 1 or 0 states, the more resourceful quantum bit, or 'qubit' is represented by a ve...

Five-dimensional black hole could 'break' general relativity

Feb 19, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers have shown how a bizarrely shaped black hole could cause Einstein's general theory of relativity, a foundation of modern physics, to break down. How...

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...

Canonical transformation provides insights into many-particle physics

Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)

The concepts of rotation and angular momentum play a crucial role in many areas of physics, ranging from nuclear spectroscopy to molecular collisions and precis...

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...

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...

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...

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...