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Astronomers Capture a Signature of Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has today revealed a new view of the massive object at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy: how it looks in polarised light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarisation, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. The observations are key to explaining how the M87 galaxy, located 55 million light-years away, is able to launch energetic jets from its core.

25 Mar 2021

Study Shows Effect of Gravitational Influence on Star Cluster Nearest to Sun

Data obtained from the European Space Agency’s Gaia star-mapping satellite has demonstrated interesting evidence that the closest cluster of stars to the Sun is being disturbed by the gravitational effect of a huge but unobserved structure in the Milky Way galaxy.

25 Mar 2021

CSIRO's Dish to Support One of the First Commercial Moon Landings

The iconic Parkes radio telescope, owned and operated by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, will help businesses to literally reach for the Moon by providing ground station support for one of the first commercial lunar landings later this year.

25 Mar 2021

Novel Thermometer can Quickly Measure Temperatures During Quantum Calculations

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a novel type of thermometer that can simply and quickly measure temperatures during quantum calculations with extremely high accuracy. The breakthrough provides a benchmarking tool for quantum computing of great value - and opens up for experiments in the exciting field of quantum thermodynamics.

24 Mar 2021

New Results Challenge the Established Laws of Particle Physics

When so-called beauty quarks are produced during the collision of high-energy proton beams in the Large Hadron Collider - the particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva - they decay almost immediately on the spot.

24 Mar 2021

Novel Thermometer can Accelerate Quantum Computer Development

24 Mar 2021

Ordered Vacancy can be a New Degree of Freedom for Manipulation of Quantum Materials

Crystals inherently possess imperfections. Vacancies, as the simplest form of point defects, significantly alter the optical, thermal, and electrical properties of materials. Well-known examples include colour centres in many gemstones, the nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond, vacancy migration in solid-state batteries, and the metal-insulator transition in phase-change materials.

23 Mar 2021

Skoltech Scientist Bridges the Gap Between Quantum Simulators and Quantum Computers

A researcher from Skoltech has filled in the gaps connecting quantum simulators with more traditional quantum computers, discovering a new computationally universal model of quantum computation, the variational model. The paper was published as a Letter in the journal Physical Review A. The work made the Editors’ Suggestion list.

23 Mar 2021

Study Explores Relationship Between Atom Size and Other Atomic Properties

A study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has yielded new answers to fundamental questions about the relationship between the size of an atom and its other properties, such as electronegativity and energy.

19 Mar 2021