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Supermassive Black Hole Observed Between Constellations of Cygnus and Lyra

Step outside of your house tonight, look up towards the sky, focus your view between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, and then zoom in about 100 million light years.

7 Jan 2015

Amherst Scientists Observe Massive X-ray Flare from Supermassive Black Hole

Last September, after years of watching, a team of scientists led by Amherst College astronomy professor Daryl Haggard observed and recorded the largest-ever flare in X-rays from a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

6 Jan 2015

Accurate Stellar Clock to Measure Ages of Stars from Their Spins

When you're a kid every birthday is cause for celebration, but as you get older they become a little less exciting. You might not want to admit just how old you are. And you might notice yourself slowing down over the years.

6 Jan 2015

Indian Government Approves Establishment of Neutrino Observatory

The Union Cabinet of the Govt. of India chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for the establishment of India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) at an estimated cost of Rs. 1500 crores.

6 Jan 2015

Study on Pairing Superfluidity in Spin-Orbit Coupled Ultracold Fermi Gases

Ultracold atomic gases have been widely considered as ideal platforms for quantum simulation. Thanks to the clean environment and the highly tunable parameters in these systems, many interesting physical models can be simulated using cold atomic gases, and various novel many-body states have been prepared and probed experimentally.

31 Dec 2014

Realistic Galaxies Created in Simulation of the Universe

An international team of astronomers, based at the Universities of Leiden in the Netherlands and Durham in the UK and, led by professor Joop Schaye (Leiden University), developed a simulation of the universe in which realistic galaxies are created; their mass, size and age are similar to those of observed galaxies. Their similarity is caused by the simulation of strong galactic winds - gas winds that are blown from galaxies.

31 Dec 2014

Neutrinos Can Inflict Glancing Blows to the Nucleus

In what they call a "weird little corner" of the already weird world of neutrinos, physicists have found evidence that these tiny particles might be involved in a surprising reaction.

31 Dec 2014

JHU Professor Wins Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for Film Particle Fever

David E. Kaplan, a Johns Hopkins University professor, theoretical particle physicist and documentary producer, received the 2015 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in Journalism for his contributions to the production of the film Particle Fever.

30 Dec 2014

Researchers Discover Half-Light, Half-Matter Particles in Atomically Thin Semiconductors

Prospects of developing computing and communication technologies based on quantum properties of light and matter may have taken a major step forward thanks to research by City College of New York physicists led by Dr. Vinod Menon.

30 Dec 2014

PTOLEMY Prototype Lab at PPPL to Hunt for Big Bang Neutrinos

Billions upon billions of neutrinos speed harmlessly through everyone’s body every moment of the day, according to cosmologists. The bulk of these subatomic particles are believed to come straight from the Big Bang, rather than from the sun or other sources.

24 Dec 2014