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Researchers Create Detailed, High Frame-Rate Movie of Growing Black Hole System

Led by the University of Southampton, an international team of astronomers has made use of high-tech cameras to make a high frame-rate movie of an enlarging black hole system at a level of detail never witnessed before.

14 Oct 2019

Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies is Governed by Strong Winds at Their Centers

A study by astronomers from the University of California, Riverside, has revealed that strong winds induced by supermassive black holes at the centers of dwarf galaxies have a considerable effect on how these galaxies evolve by suppressing the formation of stars.

14 Oct 2019

New Superconducting Material Could Help Achieve Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

A discovery by researchers from the Johns Hopkins University could soon make quantum computers with the potential to carry out complex calculations, more secure data encryption, and more rapid prediction of the spread of viruses a reality.

11 Oct 2019

Insights into Heavy Fermion Material Could Help Power New Quantum Technologies

For many years, scientists have always been enthralled about superconductivity, as it enables existing technologies to be revolutionized.

11 Oct 2019

Scientists Observe a Single Quantum Vibration Under Ordinary Conditions

When a guitar string is plucked, it vibrates as any vibrating object would, rising and falling like a wave, as the laws of classical physics predict.

11 Oct 2019

Study Proposes the Use of Plasmas to Search for Elusive Dark Matter

As part of a study that could completely transform the quest for the elusive dark matter, physicists from Stockholm University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics have resorted to the use of plasmas.

11 Oct 2019

High Pressure Detected at Boundary of Solar System

Higher pressure, observed at the boundary of the solar system, is the force exerted by magnetic fields, plasma, and particles such as cosmic rays, ions, and electrons on one another when they flow and collide.

10 Oct 2019

Physicists Further Narrow Down Range of Search for Dark Matter

In the 21st century, the search for dark matter is one of the most fascinating challenges in fundamental physics. For a long time, scientists have been aware that it does exist, as it would have otherwise been hard to explain numerous astrophysical observations.

9 Oct 2019

Scientists Discover the Presence of Axions in Weyl Semimetal

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Princeton University, the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered a prominently elusive particle—the axion.

9 Oct 2019