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Astrophysicists Unveil Most Accurate Picture of Distribution of Dark Matter

The unveiling this summer of the most accurate cosmic picture ever taken of the distribution of dark matter has left astrophysicists feeling both delighted and frustrated.

1 Nov 2017

Unprecedented Deep Image of Galaxy Reveals Evidence of Hidden Minor Merger

The galaxy Messier 77 (M77) is famous for its super-active nucleus that releases enormous energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from x-ray to radio wavelengths. Yet, despite its highly active core, the galaxy looks like any normal quiet spiral. There's no visual sign of what is causing its central region to radiate so extensively.

1 Nov 2017

Novel Optics System Could Help Locate Source of Gravitational Waves

A novel optics system that mimics the structure of a lobster’s eyes would enable a conceptual Explorer-class mission to precisely locate, characterize, and alert other observatories to the source of gravitational waves, which are caused by some of the most powerful events in the universe.

27 Oct 2017

Unique Properties of Quantum Materials Could Revolutionize Future Technologies

For nearly four decades the subatomic physics laboratory, TRIUMF, in Vancouver, has housed a unique facility that uses the short-lived, muon subatomic particle (an elementary particle similar to the electron) as a sensitive magnetic probe in materials, and in studies of chemical reactions.

27 Oct 2017

Popular Theory of Gravity Hardly Applicable to Real World

Taking black holes (as a real object) as a test material, scientists from the Ural Federal university (UrFU, Yekaterinburg) found out that a popular theory of gravity which had seemed to work perfectly at the cosmological level (a subclass of Horndeski theory) is hardly applicable to the real world.

27 Oct 2017

Viscosity of Quark-Gluon Plasma to be Much Lower than Previously Estimated

Collisions of lead nuclei in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator take place at such great energies that quarks that are normally confined inside nucleons are released and, together with the gluons that hold them together, form a stream of particularly exotic fluid: quark-gluon plasma.

27 Oct 2017

Astronomers Spot Dusty Tails of Exocomets Streaking Past a Distant Star

Scientists from MIT and other institutions, working closely with amateur astronomers, have spotted the dusty tails of six exocomets -- comets outside our solar system -- orbiting a faint star 800 light years from Earth.

27 Oct 2017

Density of Galaxy Cluster Seems to be Much Smaller than Predicted, says Astrophysicists

Galaxy clusters are the largest known structures in the Universe, containing thousands of galaxies and hot gas.

26 Oct 2017

ESO’s VLT Reveals Secrets of Luminous Members of Closes Galaxy Cluster

Captured using the exceptional sky-surveying abilities of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, this deep view reveals the secrets of the luminous members of the Fornax Cluster, one of the richest and closest galaxy clusters to the Milky Way.

26 Oct 2017

Astrophysicists to Catch Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Deep Space

A team led by Prof. Angela Olinto was awarded NASA funding to fly an ultra-long duration balloon mission with an innovative ultra-sensitive telescope to pick up cosmic rays and neutrinos coming from deep space.

25 Oct 2017