New Simulations Provide Clues on How to Escape a Black Hole
Black holes are known for their voracious appetites, binging on matter with such ferocity that not even light can escape once it’s swallowed up. Less…
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CHIME Detects Repeating Fast Radio Burst From Another Galaxy
Assistant professor of physics Laura Newburgh is part of a Canadian-led experiment that has detected the second-known example of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB)…
Physicists Record Temporal Coherence of a Graphene Qubit
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have recorded, for the first time, the “temporal coherence” of a graphene qubit — meaning how long it can maintain…
Physicists Trace Communication Interception Through Meteor Trails
Kazan University physicists created a refined simulation of a joint reception area of meteor radio reflections. The paper appeared in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and…
New Equations Go Beyond Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
When stars collapse, they can create black holes, which are everywhere throughout the universe and therefore important to be studied. Black holes are mysterious objects…
Scientists Use Photons to Engineering Interaction Between Qubits
In the world of quantum computing, interaction is everything. For computers to work at all, bits — the ones and zeros that make up digital…
Physicists Create Tiny Droplets of Early Universe Matter
Researchers have created tiny droplets of the ultra-hot matter that once filled the early universe, forming three distinct shapes and sizes: circles, ellipses and triangles….
COSINE-100 Experiment Challenges Previous Claims About Dark Matter
Yale scientists are part of a new international experiment that challenges previous claims about the detection of non-luminous dark matter. Astrophysical evidence suggests that the…
Imaging Techniques Will Help Bring Fusion Energy Closer to Reality
Harnessing nuclear fusion, which powers the sun and stars, to help meet earth’s energy needs, is a step closer after researchers showed that using two…
Physicists Use Laser Light to Cool Traveling Sound Waves in Silicon Chips
Yale scientists have discovered that laser light can be used to cool traveling sound waves in a silicon chip. Their findings appear in the Nov….
Scientists Replicate Surface Structures at the Atomic Scale
Yale researchers have developed a procedure that can replicate surface structures at the atomic scale – a breakthrough that could lead to better catalysts, improved…
AI Controlled Quantum Error Correction System Capable of Learning
Neural networks enable learning of error correction strategies for computers based on quantum physics Quantum computers could solve complex tasks that are beyond the capabilities…
ACME Collaboration Sets Size Limit for Undiscovered Subatomic Particles
A new study suggests that many theorized heavy particles, if they exist at all, do not have the properties needed to explain the predominance of…
Physicist Details the Shape of a Symmetrical Wormhole
A RUDN physicist demonstrated how to describe the shape of any symmetrical wormhole – a black hole that theoretically can be a kind of a…
When light Causes a Photoinduced Phase Transition
The way that ordinary materials undergo a phase change, such as melting or freezing, has been studied in great detail. Now, a team of researchers…
Scientists Develop Method for Identify Source of Perplexing Waves
Magnetic reconnection, the snapping apart and violent reconnection of magnetic field lines in plasma — the state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic…
Scientists Demonstrate New Method to Control the Behavior of Light
Yale scientists have demonstrated a new method to control the behavior of light on a silicon chip — specifically, its direction — by using sound…
Physicists Manipulate and Control Individual Molecules
New technique will open up research possibilities across the fields of nanoscience and nanophysics. Physicists at the University of Bath have discovered how to manipulate…