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James Webb Space Telescope Captures Young Star’s Supersonic Outflow

When stellar winds or gas jets emitted by young stars collide with neighboring gas and dust at high speeds, they create Herbig-Haro (HH) objects, which are bright areas around young stars.

15 Sep 2023

Stony Brook Professor Named Co-Recipient of the 2024 Breakthrough Prize for Work in Quantum Field Theory

This morning, the Breakthrough Foundation announced the winners of the 2024 Breakthrough Prizes and Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor and C.N. Yang/Wei Deng Endowed Chair Alexander Zamolodchikov was named co-recipient of the Prize in Fundamental Physics.

15 Sep 2023

Measuring the Total Amount of Matter in the Universe Using Galaxy Clusters

A research team relies on measuring the number of galaxy members to determine the mass of galaxy clusters.

14 Sep 2023

A Galaxy Cluster Collision That Defies the Standard Cosmology Model

According to recent research performed by an international group of astronomers, including a physicist at the University of St Andrews, the collision of two huge clusters of galaxies when the Universe was half its present age should not have occurred based on the conventional theory of cosmology.

14 Sep 2023

Astronomers Identify Two Potential Polar Ring Galaxies

A group of international astronomers, including scientists from Queen’s University, has determined two possible polar ring galaxies.

13 Sep 2023

Muon g-2 Doubles Down With Latest Measurement, Explores Uncharted Territory in Search of New Physics

Physicists now have a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment that improves the precision of their previous result by a factor of 2.

12 Sep 2023

LHCb Observes Hypertriton Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC

With its detection of hypertriton in proton-proton collisions, the LHCb experiment strengthens CERN’s role as one of the few places worldwide to study hypernuclei such as the hypertriton and its antipartner in detail.

12 Sep 2023

New Ultrafast Electron Probe Apparatus

Quantum materials possess a wide range of exotic electronic, magnetic, and optical characteristics, making them ideal candidates for application in future computer and energy systems.

11 Sep 2023

Unprecedented Detail Revealed in Dark Matter Distribution

New research has unveiled previously unseen levels of detail in the distribution of dark matter, reaching down to a scale as small as 30,000 light-years. These observed fluctuations in distribution offer enhanced constraints on the characteristics of dark matter.

8 Sep 2023

NASA Discovers New 'Hungry' Black Hole Phenomena

Utilizing NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery: a black hole in a distant galaxy that is repeatedly consuming a Sun-like star.

8 Sep 2023