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Simulations Reveal the Origins of Globular Clusters

For generations, astronomers have pondered the origins of globular clusters, which are among the universe’s oldest and densest star systems

15 Sep 2025

New Detector Challenges Existing Models of Dark Matter

An international team, led by researchers from the University of Zurich’s Department of Physics, has used an improved superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) to probe for dark matter particles across a wide mass range below one mega electron volt (MeV).

10 Sep 2025

Unprecedented Gamma-Ray Burst Puzzles Astronomers

Astronomers have observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB) unlike any seen before: a powerful explosion that repeated multiple times over a single day.

10 Sep 2025

Highest-Resolution Image Reveals the Secrets of Fomalhaut’s Debris Disk

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a global research team led by astronomers from Johns Hopkins University and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has created the highest resolution image to date, providing new information about the peculiar and enigmatic structure of the debris disk surrounding Fomalhaut, one of the brightest and well-studied stars in the cosmic neighborhood.

9 Sep 2025

New Study Unlocks a Surprising Quantum Interaction

Researchers at The City College of New York demonstrated how a quantum emitter, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, interacts unexpectedly with a specifically built photonic structure when moved with a scanning needle.

8 Sep 2025

Astronomers Find a Massive Dark Matter Cloud with Pulsars

In a preprint released in August 2025, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics reported a newly identified cloud composed entirely of dark matter.

3 Sep 2025

Quantum Geometry Discovery Paves the Way for Future Electronics

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with the University of Salerno and the CNR-SPIN Institute (Italy), has made a significant breakthrough by discovering a previously unknown geometry that distorts electron trajectories in the same way that gravity bends the path of light.

3 Sep 2025