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New Production Process Makes Micron-Sized YIG Structures Universally Usable

New storage and information technology requires new higher performance materials. One of these materials is yttrium iron garnet, which has special magnetic properties. Thanks to a new process, it can now be transferred to any material.

24 Feb 2021

Newly Proposed Heavy Particle Could Help Unravel Dark Matter Mysteries

Scientists from the University of Granada have proposed a new particle which, in contrast to the Higgs boson discovered in 2012 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider after a four-decade quest, is so heavy that it is impossible to produce directly even in this collider.

24 Feb 2021

X-Ray Telescopes Reveal Key Component of Famous Supernova Remnant

For more than 30 years, researchers have been searching for a reclusive neutron star in the famous Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A).

24 Feb 2021

Researchers Develop New Algorithm to Analyze Large Scale Cosmic Structures

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led an international team which has developed an algorithm called COSMIC BIRTH to analyze large scale cosmic structures. This new computation method will permit the analysis of the evolution of the structure of dark matter from the early universe until the formation of present day galaxies. This work was recently published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).

23 Feb 2021

Russian Scientists Propose a New Mechanism for Neutrino Production in Quasars

Scientists of the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS), the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS (INR RAS) studied the arrival directions of astrophysical neutrinos with energies more than a trillion electronvolts (TeV) and came to an unexpected conclusion: all of them are born near black holes in the centers of distant active galaxies powerful radio sources. Previously, only neutrinos with the highest energies were assumed to be obtained in sources of this class.

23 Feb 2021

NASA's Swift Used for Tracing a Neutrino to Star-Shredding Black Hole

For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to an object outside our galaxy. Using ground- and space-based facilities, including NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, they traced the neutrino to a black hole tearing apart a star, a rare cataclysmic occurrence called a tidal disruption event.

23 Feb 2021