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New Technique Helps Study Photochemical Reactions of Individual Molecules

Researchers have been able to “X-ray” molecules such as oxygen and observe their movement in the microcosm using a novel experimental method.

10 Jun 2020

Researchers Observe Long-Lived Heartbeat of Supermassive Black Hole

A supermassive black hole’s heartbeat has been spotted through X-ray satellite observations after its signal was blocked by the Sun for several years.

10 Jun 2020

Study Offers New Explanation for Appearance of High-Energy Neutrinos

A new research paper co-authored by a Virginia Tech assistant professor of physics provides a new explanation for two recent strange events that occurred in Antarctica - high-energy neutrinos appearing to come up out of the Earth on their own accord and head skyward.

10 Jun 2020

Study Reveals How Quasars with Parabola-Shaped Jets Evolve into Cones

A team of researchers from Finland, Germany, Russia, and the United States has analyzed over 300 quasars, which are spinning black holes producing plasma beams.

9 Jun 2020

Astronomers Use VLA to Observe Hidden Hot Corino of Protostar Pair

In response to an intuition, a group of astronomers has presumably solved a puzzle related to young, still-forming stars and organic molecules-rich regions closely surrounding them.

9 Jun 2020

Study Mimics Shock Wave Conditions of Supernova Remnants in Lab

When stars explode as supernovas, they produce shock waves in the plasma surrounding them. So powerful are these shock waves, they can act as particle accelerators that blast streams of particles, called cosmic rays, out into the universe at nearly the speed of light.

9 Jun 2020