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Pulsar Helps Measure Magnetic Field of Milky Way's Central Supermassive Black Hole

Astronomers have made an important measurement of the magnetic field emanating from a swirling disk of material surrounding the black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. The measurement, made by observing a recently-discovered pulsar, is providing them with a powerful new tool for studying the mysterious region at the core of our home galaxy.

16 Aug 2013

Pulsar with Extremely Strong Magnetic Field Discovered at Centre of Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered a magnetar at the centre of our Milky Way. This pulsar has an extremely strong magnetic field and enables researchers to investigate the direct vicinity of the black hole at the heart of the galaxy.

16 Aug 2013

Hubble Helps Astronomers Look 11 Billion Years Back in Time

Astronomers have used observations from Hubble’s CANDELS survey to explore the sizes, shapes, and colours of distant galaxies over the last 80% of the Universe’s history. In the Universe today galaxies come in a variety of different forms, and are classified via a system known as the Hubble Sequence — and it turns out that this sequence was already in place as early as 11 billion years ago.

16 Aug 2013

Magnetic Fields May Also Cause Turbulences Within Dead Zones

Just how stars and black holes in the Universe are able to form from rotating matter is one of the big questions of astrophysics. What we do know is that magnetic fields figure prominently into the picture.

16 Aug 2013

Controlling Nanoscale Imperfections in Superconducting Wires Leads to Unparalleled Materials

The ability to control nanoscale imperfections in superconducting wires results in materials with unparalleled and customized performance, according to a new study from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

16 Aug 2013

Photonic Qubits Teleported With Extreme Reliability

By means of the quantum-mechanical entanglement of spatially separated light fields, researchers in Tokyo and Mainz have managed to teleport photonic qubits with extreme reliability. This means that a decisive breakthrough has been achieved some 15 years after the first experiments in the field of optical teleportation.

16 Aug 2013

Researchers Trap Ions to Analyze How Matter was Created After the Big Bang

Research groups at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Physical-Technical Federal Institute (PTB) in Braunschweig, working in collaboration with scientists at the University of Ulm and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, have been investigating the formation of defects occurring when a Coulomb crystal of ions is driven through a second-order phase transition.

14 Aug 2013

Topological Insulators Behave Asymmetrically at Sub-Atomic Level

New research shows that a class of materials being eyed for the next generation of computers behaves asymmetrically at the sub-atomic level. This research is a key step toward understanding the topological insulators that may have the potential to be the building blocks of a super-fast quantum computer that could run on almost no electricity.

14 Aug 2013

Researchers Measure Light Emitted by Photoluminescence from Optically Levitated Nano Diamond

Researchers at the University of Rochester have measured for the first time light emitted by photoluminescence from a nanodiamond levitating in free space. In a paper published this week in Optics Letters, they describe how they used a laser to trap nanodiamonds in space, and – using another laser – caused the diamonds to emit light at given frequencies.

13 Aug 2013

Laser-Excited Celestial Meteor Pollution Helps View the Universe with Unprecedented Clarity

“Celestial Pollution” from meteors like this weekend’s Perseid Meteor Shower sprinkle sodium high up in our atmosphere and give astronomers what they need to see the universe in much greater detail.

12 Aug 2013

Hubble Space Telescope Helps Solve 40-Year-Old Origin Mystery of Magellanic Stream

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have solved the 40-year-old mystery of the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around the Milky Way. New Hubble observations reveal that most of this stream was stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud some two billion years ago, with a smaller portion originating more recently from its larger neighbour.

12 Aug 2013

Gemini’s FLAMINGOS-2 Reveals Magnificent Near-Infrared Images of Swan Nebula

Gemini Observatory’s latest instrument, a powerful infrared camera and spectrograph at Gemini South, reveals its potential in a series of striking on-sky commissioning images released today.

12 Aug 2013

Novel Compact Miniature Spectrometer to Measure Terahertz Waves

The chair for RF engineering at Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) recently embarked on a new joint effort with the goal of developing improved diagnostic tools for use in accelerators. Using a novel compact miniature spectrometer, the researchers are planning on measuring terahertz waves at ELBE, the HZDR’s electron accelerator.

12 Aug 2013

Higgs Boson May Help Explain Attributes of Enigmatic Dark Energy

One of the biggest mysteries in contemporary particle physics and cosmology is why dark energy, which is observed to dominate energy density of the universe, has a remarkably small (but not zero) value. This value is so small, it is perhaps 120 orders of magnitude less than would be expected based on fundamental physics.

12 Aug 2013

Atomic Clock Used as Quantum Simulator

Researchers at JILA have for the first time used an atomic clock as a quantum simulator, mimicking the behavior of a different, more complex quantum system.

9 Aug 2013

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Pulsar Helps Measure Magnetic Field of Milky Way's Central Supermassive Black Hole

Pulsar with Extremely Strong Magnetic Field Discovered at Centre of Milky Way

Hubble Helps Astronomers Look 11 Billion Years Back in Time

Magnetic Fields May Also Cause Turbulences Within Dead Zones

Controlling Nanoscale Imperfections in Superconducting Wires Leads to Unparalleled Materials

Photonic Qubits Teleported With Extreme Reliability

Researchers Trap Ions to Analyze How Matter was Created After the Big Bang

Topological Insulators Behave Asymmetrically at Sub-Atomic Level

Researchers Measure Light Emitted by Photoluminescence from Optically Levitated Nano Diamond

Laser-Excited Celestial Meteor Pollution Helps View the Universe with Unprecedented Clarity

Hubble Space Telescope Helps Solve 40-Year-Old Origin Mystery of Magellanic Stream

Gemini’s FLAMINGOS-2 Reveals Magnificent Near-Infrared Images of Swan Nebula

Novel Compact Miniature Spectrometer to Measure Terahertz Waves

Higgs Boson May Help Explain Attributes of Enigmatic Dark Energy

Atomic Clock Used as Quantum Simulator

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