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Magnetic Fields Detected Just Outside the Event Horizon of Milky Way's Central Black Hole

Most people think of black holes as giant vacuum cleaners sucking in everything that gets too close. But the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are more like cosmic engines, converting energy from infalling matter into intense radiation that can outshine the combined light from all surrounding stars. If the black hole is spinning, it can generate strong jets that blast across thousands of light-years and shape entire galaxies. These black hole engines are thought to be powered by magnetic fields. For the first time, astronomers have detected magnetic fields just outside the event horizon of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

7 Dec 2015

Astronomers Find Faintest Object Ever Seen in the Early Universe

Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million years after the big bang, 13.8 billion years ago.

7 Dec 2015

Moon's Surface and Lunar Crust's Local Magnetic Fields Reflect Solar Wind

The lunar space environment is much more active than previously assumed. The solar wind is reflected from the surface and crustal magnetic fields of the moon which has effects on for instance lunar water levels. This according to a dissertation by Charles Lue at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University in Sweden.

1 Dec 2015

Skyrmions Could Also Exist in Ferroelectrics, Finds New Study

New theoretical physics research shows that swirling particles known as skyrmions, which have been found in magnetic systems, can also exist in ferroelectrics.

1 Dec 2015

Researchers Simulate Rapidly Rotating Collapsed Stellar Core

When certain massive stars use up all of their fuel and collapse onto their cores, explosions 10 to 100 times brighter than the average supernova occur. Exactly how this happens is not well understood. Astrophysicists from Caltech, UC Berkeley, the Albert Einstein Institute, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics have used the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters supercomputer to perform three-dimensional computer simulations to fill in an important missing piece of our understanding of what drives these blasts.

1 Dec 2015

Researchers Generate 3D Simulations of Deep Jet Streams, Storms on Jupiter And Saturn

A University of Alberta researcher has successfully generated 3D simulations of deep jet streams and storms on Jupiter and Saturn, helping to satiate our eternal quest for knowledge of planetary dynamics. The results facilitate a deeper understanding of planetary weather and provide clues to the dynamics of Earth's weather patterns evidenced in jet streams and ocean currents.

1 Dec 2015

FAU, SK Telecom Enter Agreement to Develop Secure Communications Using Quantum Physics

Florida Atlantic University and SK Telecom, the largest telecommunications company in South Korea, have entered into a research and education agreement to collaborate on the development of secure communications using quantum physics.

1 Dec 2015

Supercomputer Simulations Reveal Unique Turbulence That Fuels Stellar Explosions

All the stars in the sky will eventually die – and some will really go out with a bang.

1 Dec 2015

MPQ Scientist Awarded ERC Starting Grant for Study on Rydberg Dressed Quantum Many-Body Systems

Dr. Christian Groß, a young research scientist working in the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division of Professor Immanuel Bloch at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching near Munich), has been selected by the European Research Council as one of the recipients of an ERC Starting Grant for the year 2015.

30 Nov 2015

Magnon Researcher Awarded €1.5 Million EU Funding

33-year-old physicist at the University of Kaiserslautern receives 1.5 million euros of EU funding.

30 Nov 2015

Quantum Physics News

Magnetic Fields Detected Just Outside the Event Horizon of Milky Way's Central Black Hole

Astronomers Find Faintest Object Ever Seen in the Early Universe

Moon's Surface and Lunar Crust's Local Magnetic Fields Reflect Solar Wind

Skyrmions Could Also Exist in Ferroelectrics, Finds New Study

Researchers Simulate Rapidly Rotating Collapsed Stellar Core

Researchers Generate 3D Simulations of Deep Jet Streams, Storms on Jupiter And Saturn

FAU, SK Telecom Enter Agreement to Develop Secure Communications Using Quantum Physics

Supercomputer Simulations Reveal Unique Turbulence That Fuels Stellar Explosions

MPQ Scientist Awarded ERC Starting Grant for Study on Rydberg Dressed Quantum Many-Body Systems

Magnon Researcher Awarded €1.5 Million EU Funding

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

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Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

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