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Black Hole Double Burp Spotted By Space Telescopes

Black holes are well known for consuming everything in space around them due to their huge gravitational pull, but we know less about their 'burps'.

By Luke Edwards 16 Jan 2018

Life Matter Discovered In Ancient Meteorites

New technology has been used to study meteorites that fell to Earth in 1998 - evidence for life outside our planet has potentially been discovered.

By Luke Edwards 15 Jan 2018

Scientists Develop a Large-Scale, Un-Hackable Quantum Network

Scientists have developed a method for securely communicating between multiple quantum devices.

12 Jan 2018

Astronomers Locate Substellar Objects in Orion Nebula Using Hubble Space Telescope

In a survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers discovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs scattered among newborn stars.

12 Jan 2018

NASA Study Shows Planets Not Involved in Formation of Disk Patterns Around Stars

When exoplanet scientists first spotted patterns in disks of dust and gas around young stars, they thought newly formed planets might be the cause. But a recent NASA study cautions that there may be another explanation — one that doesn’t involve planets at all.

12 Jan 2018

Discovery of New Stellar Streams Indicate that Milky Way Pulls Stars from its Neighbors

Although majority of the stars in our sky possibly originated in the Milky Way, a number of them seem to have migrated to our galaxy from other galaxies.

12 Jan 2018

Astronomers Discover Whirlpool Motion of Swirling Gas in Earliest Galaxies

Astronomers have identified swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have been developed in the Universe.

12 Jan 2018

DES Scientists Announce Discovery of Stellar Streams and Small Galaxies

At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) announced today the public release of their first three years of data.

11 Jan 2018

Caesium Lead Halide Quantum Dots Emit Extremely Bright and Fast Light

An international team of researchers from ETH Zurich, IBM Research Zurich, Empa and four American research institutions have found the explanation for why a class of nanocrystals that has been intensively studied in recent years shines in such incredibly bright colours.

11 Jan 2018

Supermassive Black Holes Prevent Star Formation in Some Smaller Galaxies

Scientists have discovered evidence that supermassive black holes prevent the formation of stars in some smaller galaxies.

11 Jan 2018

MSU Physicists Develop Magnetic Waveguide to Trap Neutrons

A team from Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (MSU) together with their colleagues developed a magnetic waveguide able to sort neutrons with different spins and storethem different layers. The results of the study may help in study of electronic devices based on not charge of electrons but on their quantum state. The article was published in Physical Review B journal.

10 Jan 2018