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Unusual Light Signal Yields Clues About Elusive Black Hole Merger
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
The central regions of many glittering galaxies, our own Milky Way included, harbor cores of impenetrable darkness-black holes with masses equivalent to million...
New catalyst process uses light, not metal, for rapid polymerization
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
A team of chemistry and materials science experts from University of California, Santa Barbara and The Dow Chemical Company has created a novel way to overcome ...
Will the Real Monster Black Hole Please Stand Up?
Jan 09, 2015 (JPL)
A new high-energy X-ray image from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has pinpointed the true monster of a galactic mashup. The image show...
Vanishing neutron star helps measure space-time warp
Jan 09, 2015 (SPX)
In an interstellar race against time, astronomers have measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and determined the mass of a neutron star--j...
New light shed on electron spin flips
Jan 08, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from Berlin Joint EPR Lab at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and University of Washington derived a new set of equations that allows for calculating electr...
Unusual Light Signal Hints at Distant Black Hole Merger
Jan 08, 2015 (JPL)
The central regions of many glittering galaxies, our own Milky Way included, harbor cores of impenetrable darkness - black holes with masses equivalent to milli...
Planet-hunting satellite observes supermassive black hole
Jan 07, 2015 (SPX)
Step outside of your house tonight, look up towards the sky, focus your view between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, and then zoom in about 100 million l...
Astronomer Detects Record-Breaking Black Hole Outburst
Jan 07, 2015 (SPX)
Last September, after years of watching, a team of scientists led by Amherst College astronomy professor Daryl Haggard observed and recorded the largest-ever fl...
June 30 will be one second longer this year
Jan 07, 2015 (UPI)
The guardians of time have spoken, and this year June 30 will be one second longer. A so-called leap second will be added to the world's clock at the end of Jun...
New technology enables ultra-fast steering and shaping of light beams
Jan 07, 2015 (SPX)
A team of engineers has developed a new acousto-optic device that can shape and steer beams of light at speeds never before achieved. The new technology will en...
Acoustic levitation made simple
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil has developed a new levitation device that can hover a tiny object with more control than any ins...
Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst From Milky Way's Black Hole
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This event, detected by ...
Six-Eyed Spider to Verify Big Bang Theory
Jan 04, 2015 (SPX)
American cosmologists at the South Pole marked the New Year with the launch of a balloon equipped with six telescopes focused on verifying the Big Bang, The New...
Neutrinos can deliver not only full-on hits but also 'glancing blows'
Jan 02, 2015 (SPX)
In what they call a "weird little corner" of the already weird world of neutrinos, physicists have found evidence that these tiny particles might be involved in...
Revellers welcome 2015 but celebrations turn deadly in China
Jan 01, 2015 (AFP)
Millions of revelers took to the streets from Sydney to New York to usher in 2015 on Thursday, but celebrations turned to tragedy in China, where 35 people were...
Half-light Half-matter
Dec 30, 2014 (SPX)
Prospects of developing computing and communication technologies based on quantum properties of light and matter may have taken a major step forward thanks to r...
How electrons split: New evidence of exotic behaviors
Dec 26, 2014 (SPX)
Electrons may be seen as small magnets that also carry a negative electrical charge. On a fundamental level, these two properties are indivisible. However, in c...
Quantum physics just got less complicated
Dec 24, 2014 (SPX)
Here's a nice surprise: quantum physics is less complicated than we thought. An international team of researchers has proved that two peculiar features of the q...
Exact Solution to Model Big Bang and Quark Gluon Plasma
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
Unlike in mathematics, it is rare to have exact solutions to physics problems. "When they do present themselves, they are an opportunity to test the approximati...
Sunday night the longest since 1912, here's why
Dec 21, 2014 (UPI)
At 6:04 p.m. EST on Sunday, the sun will be appear directly overhead along the Tropic of Capricorn, at 23.5 degrees latitude, south of the Equator. It's the win...
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