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Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Discusses Doomsday Prophecies

This year's winter solstice will take place on Dec. 21, the same date on which some believe the world will come to an end, coinciding with the end of the Mayan long-count calendar. Doomsday prophecies even prompted NASA to address people's concerns. Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Ned Ladd says the world will end, just not this month.

13 Dec 2012

Bingeing Black Hole Sheds New Light on X-ray Sources in Other Galaxies

The discovery of a bingeing black hole that is expelling powerful beams of material has shed new light on some of the brightest X-ray sources seen in other galaxies, according to new research led by Durham University.

13 Dec 2012

Scientists Use LCLS X-ray Laser to Study Massive Cosmic Phenomena

Scientists have used powerful X-rays from the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, to study and measure, in atomic detail, a key process at work in extreme plasmas like those found in stars, the rims of black holes and other massive cosmic phenomena.

13 Dec 2012

Colossal Black Hole is 10 Times More Massive than Sun

For the first time, astronomers have found a microquasar -- a black hole devouring material from a companion star -- in a galaxy beyond our own Milky Way. The object, pumping out X-rays and bright bursts of radio waves, ...

13 Dec 2012

Physicists Use Quantum Superfluid to Grow Helium Crystals under Zero Gravity

A group of physicists from Japan have taken to the skies to grow crystals under zero gravity.

13 Dec 2012

Black Holes Have Properties That Resemble Dynamics of both Solids and Liquids

Black holes are surrounded by many mysteries, but now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have come up with new groundbreaking theories that can explain several of their properties. The research shows that black holes have properties that resemble the dynamics of both solids and liquids. The results are published in the prestigious scientific journal, Physical Review Letters.

12 Dec 2012

Fundamental Physics Prize for Effort to Discover Higgs-Like Particle

The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation Selection Committee, which is comprised of prior recipients of the Fundamental Physics Prize and includes Nima Arkani-Hamed, Alan Guth, Alexei Kitaev, Maxim Kontsevich, Andrei Linde, Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg, Ashoke Sen and Edward Witten,.

11 Dec 2012