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New Technique Allows High-Bit-Rate Secure Long Distance Quantum Communication

On 21st September 2017, Nature Communications published research demonstrating entanglement swapping and teleportation of orbital angular momentum “patterns” of light. This research was carried out by Scottish and South African researchers and is considered to be a vital step towards realizing a quantum repeater for high-dimensional entangled states.

22 Sep 2017

Quantum Twisted Double-Slits Experiment Confirms Wavefunctions' Physical Reality

Over the past 100 years, human society has benefited from quantum mechanics, which was considered as a pillar of modern civilization, where wavefunctions played a key role. What most people did in the past century was 'Shut up and calculate', and wavefunctions always provided a correct probability list of measurement outcomes.

22 Sep 2017

Researchers One Step Closer to Solving the Mystery of Cosmic Rays

The Pierre Auger Collaboration has been able to definitively answer the question of whether cosmic particles come from outside the Milky Way Galaxy in an article published today in the journal Science.

22 Sep 2017

Hubble Finds Rare Object in Asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter

A German-led team of astronomers, with the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, have observed the fascinating characteristics of a rare type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting each other and displaying comet-like features, including a long tail and a bright coma.

21 Sep 2017

Research on Milky Way Siblings

The Milky Way, the most-studied galaxy in the universe, may not be as typical as earlier thought, based on a new study.

21 Sep 2017

Closest Ever Binary Supermassive Black Hole System Discovered in the Galaxy NGC 7674

The closest ever binary supermassive black hole system in a spiral galaxy called NGC 7674, located about 400 million light years from earth, has been discovered by Dr. Preeti Kharb and Dr. Dharam Vir Lal from NCRA-TIFR, Pune, and David Merritt from the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

20 Sep 2017

Astrophysicists Find New Way to Estimate Mass of Supermassive Black Holes

Astrophysicists from Moscow State University have found a new way to estimate the mass of supermassive black holes outside our galaxy, even if these holes are barely detectable. The results of the study were published in the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal.

20 Sep 2017

International Researchers Successfully Observe Supernova Remnant Using MAGIC Telescopes

Cassiopeia A is a famous supernova remnant, the product of a gigantic explosion of a massive star about 350 years ago. Although discovered in radio observations 50 years ago, now we know that its emitted radiation spans from radio through high-energy gamma rays.

20 Sep 2017

VLA's All-Sky Survey Could Discover Powerful Cosmic Explosions and Collisions of Neutron Stars

Astronomers have embarked on the largest observing project in the more than four-decade history of the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array — a huge survey of the sky that promises a rich scientific payoff over many years.

19 Sep 2017

Researchers Develop High-Speed Single-Photon Sources for Quantum Communication Networks

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the University of Siegen have explained the mechanism of single-photon generation in diamond diodes.

19 Sep 2017