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Study Highlights the Importance of Possible Behavior of Extremely High Energy Photons

Photons from far-off light sources, like blazars, are capable of going up against a constant exchange of identity in their journey through the Universe just like a nail-biting thriller packed with escapes and subterfuge.

8 Sep 2017

LOFAR Radio Telescope Identifies the Second-Fastest-Spinning Pulsar

A pulsar spinning at more than 42,000 revolutions per minute has been identified by the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array radio telescope by following up on mysterious high-energy sources mapped out by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

6 Sep 2017

Primordial Black Holes Might Explain How Platinum, Gold and Uranium are Created

New theories proposed by UCLA physicists focus on how the universe’s first black holes could have been formed and the role they could be playing in the development of heavy elements such as uranium, platinum and gold.

4 Sep 2017

University of Cincinnati Professor Shining Light on Dark Matter

As a high school student, Stefania Gori visited CERN, one of the world’s most refined laboratories, when its Large Hadron Collider was only a hole in the ground hundreds of feet below Geneva, Switzerland.

1 Sep 2017

Astronomers Obtain First Map of Motion of Material on a Star Other than the Sun

Antares, the famous, bright star, shines to the unaided eye with a strong red tint in the heart of the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). This star is a huge and relatively cool red supergiant star in the late stages of its life, on the way to becoming a supernova.

24 Aug 2017

Scientists Explain the Observed Behavior of Black Holes

Physicists have explained how observations of gravitational waves restrict the potential explanations for the formation of black holes outside the galaxy; either they spin extremely fast but are ‘tumbled around’ with spins haphazardly oriented to their orbit or they are spinning even more slowly than black holes in the galaxy.

24 Aug 2017

Study Shows XENON1T is the Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector on Earth

XENON1T, a dark matter detector and an underground sentinel anticipating a collision that would ascertain a postulation, has been deemed to be the most sensitive one on Earth according to the results obtained from its maiden operation.

23 Aug 2017

Researchers Measure Molecular Electronic Properties of Vitamins

Quantum physics explains that unobserved particles may propagate via space like waves. This is considered to be philosophically captivating and of technological relevance: a team of researchers at the University of Vienna has demonstrated that incorporating experimental quantum interferometry with quantum chemistry enables deriving information about electronic and optical properties of biomolecules, here demonstrated with a set of vitamins. These results are featured in the journal "Angewandte Chemie International Edition".

23 Aug 2017

Discovery of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies is Both Remarkable and Puzzling

In the middle of a giant galaxy cluster, extremely large and yet faint galaxies have been expected. Heidelberg astronomers discovered the extremely-low-density galaxies called ultra-diffuse galaxies, in a place where no one would have expected them to be present.

22 Aug 2017

New Model Explains Mysterious Nature of High-Energy Cosmic Rays in Galaxy

A team of scientists from Russia and China has developed a model which explains the nature of high-energy cosmic rays (CRs) in our Galaxy. These CRs have energies exceeding those produced by supernova explosions by one or two orders of magnitude.

18 Aug 2017