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Dormant Black Hole Wakes up in a Dramatic Display

A team of radio astronomers, including Sam Connolly from the University of Southampton, are watching a previously dormant black hole wake up in a dramatic display as material falls on to it for the first time for perhaps millions of years.

10 Jul 2015

KiDS Project Reveals Relationships Between Mysterious Dark Matter and Shining Galaxies

Around 85% of the matter in the Universe is dark, and of a type not understood by physicists. Although it doesn't shine or absorb light, astronomers can detect this dark matter through its effect on stars and galaxies, specifically from its gravitational pull.

10 Jul 2015

Gigantic Black Hole Discovered Within Normal Size Galaxy

Black holes can be found at the centres of most galaxies. Most have little mass compared with their host galaxy. ETH researchers, however, have discovered a particularly massive black hole, which clearly grew so quickly that the host galaxy was not able to keep pace. This calls into question previous thinking on the co-evolution of galaxies and their central black holes.

10 Jul 2015

Very Long-Lasting Burst of Gamma Rays Linked to Unusually Bright Supernova Explosion

Observations from ESO? La Silla and Paranal Observatories in Chile have for the first time demonstrated a link between a very long-lasting burst of gamma rays and an unusually bright supernova explosion.

10 Jul 2015

Studies Highlight Shapely Waves at Boundaries of Near-Earth Space

The universe overflows with repeating patterns. From the smallest cells to the largest galaxies, scientists are often rewarded by observing similar patterns in vastly different places.

10 Jul 2015

Fermilab Generates Most Powerful High-Energy Particle Beam for Neutrino Experiments

A key element in a particle-accelerator-based neutrino experiment is the power of the beam that gives birth to neutrinos: The more particles you can pack into that beam, the better your chance to see neutrinos interact in your detector.

9 Jul 2015

Astronomers Observe Super-Bright Supernova with Ultra-Long Gamma-Ray Burst

Astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute have observed a super-bright supernova association with a very unusual long lasting gamma-ray burst.

9 Jul 2015

Northeastern University Conducts Experiment with CERN

What does it take to push the boundaries on the known facts of what the universe is made up of?

9 Jul 2015

Study Provides New Insights into Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Galaxy

Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way are three times more likely to have the same type of minerals as Earth than astronomers had previously thought. In fact, conditions for making the building blocks of Earth-like rocks are ubiquitous throughout the Milky Way.

9 Jul 2015

Holographic Superconductor Could Be Realized in HL Gravity

Today theoretical physicists are facing the difficulty that General Relativity is not (pertubatively) renormalizable, and find that it is very hard to construct the quantum theory of gravity with LI. A possible solution is to break the LI in the ultraviolet (UV) region, so that the theory is renormalizable and unitary.

8 Jul 2015