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First Experimental Observations of Knots in Quantum Matter

Knot solitons, or knotted solitary waves, have been successfully created in a quantum-mechanical field that describes a gas of superfluid atoms, known as Bose-Einstein condensate.

19 Jan 2016

ALMA Traces Motion of Ionized Carbon Atoms Between Stars of Quasar W2246-0526

Quasars are distant galaxies that have supermassive black holes in their cores. The black holes are active and emit strong jets of radiation and particles. Quasars are highly energetic bodies and most of them shine bright, though a small fraction are known as Hot, Dust-Obscured Galaxies, or Hot DOGs - a rare type of Quasar. This unusual behavior is also found in the galaxy WISE J224607.57-052635.0, the most luminous galaxy in the universe.

19 Jan 2016

Scientists Move One Step Closer to Understanding Formation of Anti-Hydrogen

Numerical model takes us one step closer to understanding anti-hydrogen formation, to explain the prevalence of matter and antimatter in the universe

19 Jan 2016

CERN’s AWAKE Project Aims to Validate Principle of Proton Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

AWAKE is CERN’s latest project for novel accelerators. It aims to conduct a first test experiment to validate the principle behind proton beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators.

18 Jan 2016

Astronomers Discover Super-Luminous Supernova

A team of astronomers, including Carnegie’s Benjamin Shappee, Nidia Morrell, and Ian Thompson, has discovered the most-luminous supernova ever observed, called ASAS-SN-15lh. Their findings are published in Science.

18 Jan 2016

New Observation Could Challenge Current Understanding of Pulsars

The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova explosion that was observed on Earth in the year 1054. The neutron star has a diameter of just around ten kilometers and rotates around its own axis approximately 30 times per second.

18 Jan 2016

New Theory of Secondary Inflation Helps Avoid Overestimation of Dark Matter Quantity

Standard cosmology—that is, the Big Bang Theory with its early period of exponential growth known as inflation—is the prevailing scientific model for our universe, in which the entirety of space and time ballooned out from a very hot, very dense point into a homogeneous and ever-expanding vastness.

18 Jan 2016

Physicists Formulate General Mechanism Responsible for Emergence of Spacetime Rainbow

We have probably all seen the experiment: when white light passes through a prism it splits to form a rainbow. This is because white light is in fact a mixture of photons of different energies, and the greater the energy of the photon, the more it is deflected by the prism.

18 Jan 2016

Astronomers Detect Signs of Invisible Black Hole Around the Center of the Milky Way

Astronomers using the Nobeyama 45-m Radio Telescope have detected signs of an invisible black hole with a mass of 100 thousand times the mass of the Sun around the center of the Milky Way. The team assumes that this possible “intermediate mass” black hole is a key to understanding the birth of the supermassive black holes located in the centers of galaxies.

18 Jan 2016

'Green Pea' Dwarf Galaxy could hold key to Universe Evolution

New research conducted by an intenrational team of scientists including a reseracher from the University of Virginia have discovered that newly formed dwarf galaxies were the likely reason for the universe heating up aeround 13 billion years ago.

14 Jan 2016