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Hubble Images Gathering of Four Cosmic Companions

This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a gathering of four cosmic companions. This quartet forms part of a group of galaxies known as the Hickson Compact Group 16, or HCG 16 -- a galaxy group bursting with dramatic star formation, tidal tails, galactic mergers and black holes.

19 Jun 2015

Central Supermassive Black Hole has 140 Million Times the Mass of the Sun

A research group led by Kyoko Onishi at the SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), including a researcher in the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), observed the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097 with ALMA and found that the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) has a mass 140 million times the mass of the Sun.

19 Jun 2015

Highly Precise Innovative Technique to Measure Mass of 'Strange' Atomic Nucleus

An international team of physicists working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has measured the mass of a "strange" atomic nucleus with the aid of an innovative technique that is capable of significantly greater precision than that of previous methods.

18 Jun 2015

Scientists Image Rare Environment Where Stars Could Collide

Scientists have imaged a cluster of stars, heavily obscured by material in our galaxy, where stars are so densely packed that it is likely a rare environment where stars can collide. "It's a bit like a stellar billiards table; where the probability of collisions depends on the size of the table and on the number of billiard balls on it," said Francesco R. Ferraro of the University of Bologna (Italy), one of the team members who used the Gemini Observatory to make the observations.

18 Jun 2015

EPS-QEOD Honors Swiss CSEM Engineer with 2015 Thesis Prize

The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) has awarded the 2015 Thesis Prize for applied aspects to Dr. Tobias Herr.

18 Jun 2015

First Generation of Stars Could Lurk Within Brightest Galaxy in the Early Universe

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered by far the brightest galaxy yet found in the early universe and found strong evidence that examples of the first generation of stars lurk within it.

18 Jun 2015

VLA Helps Detect Long-Sought Radio Emission from Supermassive Black Hole in Neighboring Galaxy

Thanks to the extraordinary sensitivity of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have detected what they believe is the long-sought radio emission coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of one of our closest neighboring galaxies. Evidence for the black hole's existence previously came only from studies of stellar motions in the galaxy and from X-ray observations.

18 Jun 2015

Theoretical Prediction of Existence of New Quantum Matter

Finland's Aalto University researchers have succeeded to predict, in theory, that superconducting surfaces can become topological superconductors when magnetic iron atoms are deposited on the surface in a regular pattern. They used the latest mathematical and physical models to predict the existence of a topological superconducting state on metallic superconducting surfaces and thin films. The results were recently published in the Physics Review Letters science journal.

18 Jun 2015

Zecotek's LFS Scintillation Crystals Demonstrate More Precise Coincidence Time Resolution

Zecotek Photonics Inc., a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for industrial, healthcare and scientific markets, is pleased to announce that the Company's patented LFS scintillation crystals achieved a more precise coincident time resolution (CTR) when compared to competing crystals in tests conducted by a CERN research group, on crystals with dimensions used in commercial positron emission tomography (PET) medical scanners.

17 Jun 2015

Physicists Validate Novel Laser-Driven Means of Generating Bright, Highly Energetic X-Ray Beams

Physicists at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have validated a novel laser-driven means of generating bright and highly energetic X-ray beams. The method opens up new ways of imaging the fine structure of matter.

17 Jun 2015