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Distant Galaxy Condensing to Form Stars at an Astonishing Rate

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy that is igniting new stars faster than ever seen before. Measurements from several instruments show that gas in this galaxy is condensing to form stars close to the maximum rate thought possible.

4 May 2013

Shockingly Bright Gamma-Ray Burst from Dying Star

Just after 3:47 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 27, Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggered on an eruption of high-energy light in the constellation Leo. The burst occurred as NASA's Swift satellite was slewing between targets, which delayed its Burst Alert Telescope's detection by less than a minute.

4 May 2013

Cosmic Flash May Reveal Birth of New Black Hole

When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it collapses under its own gravity and produces a black hole, an object so dense that not even light can escape its gravitational grip. According to a new analysis by an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), just before the black hole forms, the dying star may generate a distinct burst of light that will allow astronomers to witness the birth of a new black hole for the first time.

4 May 2013

Neutrinos Generated at Giant Fermilab Accelerator the Next Big Challenge for PSL

Sequestered in the farmland near Stoughton, an unusual UW-Madison facility — part machine shop, part design lab, part physics outpost — continues to make machines, equipment and detectors for the world's most advanced experiments.

4 May 2013

Researchers Frustrate Quantum Magnet Comprising Sixteen Atomic Ions

Frustration crops up throughout nature when conflicting constraints on a physical system compete with one another. The way nature resolves these conflicts often leads to exotic phases of matter that are poorly understood.

4 May 2013

Breakthrough towards Diamond-Based Quantum Network

Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials and member of the De Beers Group of Companies, today announced in collaboration with Delft University of Technology the entanglement of electron spin qubits (quantum bits) in two synthetic diamonds separated in space.

4 May 2013

Novel Methods to Probe Mechanistic Importance of Quantum Physico-Chemical Effects

The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) and Photon Science Institute (PSI) have secured a Marie Curie training network grant worth €3.4 million to train the future generation of investigators.

3 May 2013

Anarchy Reigns When Stars Form Inside Interstellar Cloud

The Danish 1.54-metre telescope located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud.

3 May 2013

First Direct Analysis of How Antimatter is Affected by Gravity

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN1 has published a paper in Nature Communications describing the first direct analysis of how antimatter is affected by gravity.

2 May 2013

Large, Colliding Galaxies Enveloped by Enormous Cloud of Hot Gas

Scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies. This unusually large reservoir of gas contains as much mass as 10 billion Suns, spans about 300,000 light years, and radiates at a temperature of more than 7 million degrees.

2 May 2013