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NASA's Hubble Telescope Captures Sharpest Image of Confirmed Interstellar Comet

The image of an interstellar visitor, comet 2I/Borisov is the latest offering from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to astronomers. The speed and trajectory of comet 2I/Borisov show it has come from outside the solar system. The image taken on October 12th, 2019 is the sharpest view of the comet ever to be captured.

17 Oct 2019

Atomic Defects and Mechanical Strain Interact to Cause Quantum Light Effect in WSe2

Layers of tungsten diselenide emit a highly unique kind of light. Thus far, the reason behind this has been unclear. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have now come up with an explanation for this.

16 Oct 2019

Tiny Dwarf Galaxy Located in its First, High-Energy Stages of Star Formation

An enormous cluster of galaxies has been used as an X-ray magnifying glass by astronomers from MIT and elsewhere, to look back in time almost 9.4 billion years ago. During the study, they located a small dwarf galaxy in its initial, high-energy stages of star formation.

16 Oct 2019

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 Interface Developed Between Quantum Emitters and Nanophotonic Networks

Quantum effects, which are most certainly observed in the domain of nanostructures, enable an extensive range of new technological applications. For instance, in the future, it could be possible for a quantum computer to solve problems that might take a long time for standard computers to solve.

11 Oct 2019