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Research Sheds Light on Globular Clusters of Stars that Host Several Hundred Black Holes

New research by the University of Surrey published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has shone light on a globular cluster of stars that could host several hundred black holes, a phenomenon that until recently was thought impossible.

8 Sep 2016

New Theoretical Modeling Work Unravels Mysteries of Dwarf Galaxies

Dwarf galaxies are enigmas wrapped in riddles. Although they are the smallest galaxies, they represent some of the biggest mysteries about our universe.

8 Sep 2016

Researchers at the University of Rochester Develop Quantum Enigma Machine

University of Rochester researchers have for the very first time demonstrated the possibility of sending an unbreakable encrypted message with a key that is extremely shorter than the message.

7 Sep 2016

Existence of New Boson May Aid in Understanding of Dark Matter in the Universe

Scientists at the High Energy Physics Group (HEP) of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg predict the existence of a new boson that might aid in the understanding of Dark Matter in the Universe.

7 Sep 2016

Astronomers Discover Several Ultracool Brown Dwarfs in Solar Neighborhood

Cool brown dwarfs are a hot topic in astronomy right now. Smaller than stars and bigger than giant planets, they hold promise for helping us understand both stellar evolution and planet formation.

7 Sep 2016

Researchers Identify Cause of Different Thermal Conductivities in Superatomic Structural Analogues

Researchers found that the thermal conductivity of superatom crystals is directly related to the rotational disorder within those structures. The findings were published in an article in Nature Materials this week.

7 Sep 2016

Notre Dame Astronomers Produce Clearest Picture of Galaxy Formation

Using colors to identify the approximate ages of more than 130,000 stars in the Milky Way’s halo, University of Notre Dame astronomers have produced the clearest picture yet of how the galaxy formed more than 13.5 billion years ago.

7 Sep 2016

University of Rochester Scientists Take Major Step Forward in Laser Fusion Research

Scientists at the University of Rochester have taken a significant step forward in laser fusion research.

7 Sep 2016

International Research Team Uses Extensive Simulation to Determine How Gravitational Waves are Triggered

If two galaxies collide, the merging of their central black holes triggers gravitational waves, which ripple throughout space. An international research team involving the University of Zurich has now calculated that this occurs around 10 million years after the two galaxies merge – much faster than previously assumed.

6 Sep 2016

KIT, SPC Receive EU SOFT Innovation Prize for Fusion Research for Development of Superconductor Concept

The EU SOFT Innovation Prize for fusion research in the amount of EUR 50,000 is awarded to a team of researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC).

6 Sep 2016

Rice University Scientists Explain How Carbon-Based Life Developed on Earth

Research by Rice University Earth scientists suggests that virtually all of Earth’s life-giving carbon could have come from a collision about 4.4 billion years ago between Earth and an embryonic planet similar to Mercury.

6 Sep 2016

RHUL Adds New Processing Capacity to Large Hadron Collider’s Grid Computing Facility

As the Large Hadron Collider again produces record-breaking collisions, Royal Holloway’s Centre for Particle Physics has doubled its computing power to help analyse the flood of new data.

6 Sep 2016

New Tool Can Give Quick Snapshot of Individual Plasma Experiments in PPPL’s NSTX-U

When most of today’s college interns were still in kindergarten, Max Wallace was working for more than a decade as a programmer for various companies, founding a hackerspace in Charlotte, North Carolina, and writing code for start-ups in Silicon Valley.

6 Sep 2016

Mysterious X-Ray Signal from Clusters of Galaxies Creates Excitement Among Astronomers

A mysterious X-ray signal from clusters of galaxies recently caused some excitement among astronomers: Does it perhaps originate from dark matter, which makes up around 80 percent of the matter in the universe, but which scientists have not yet been able to detect?

6 Sep 2016

$Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Studies Rapid Nuclear Motions in Nature’s Light-Dependent Processes$

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Studies Rapid Nuclear Motions in Nature’s Light-Dependent Processes

The Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has used its ultrafast electron camera for the first time, to get direct snapshots of atomic nuclei in molecules that are vibrating within millionths of a billionth of a second after being stroked by a laser pulse.

1 Sep 2016

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Research Sheds Light on Globular Clusters of Stars that Host Several Hundred Black Holes

New Theoretical Modeling Work Unravels Mysteries of Dwarf Galaxies

Researchers at the University of Rochester Develop Quantum Enigma Machine

Existence of New Boson May Aid in Understanding of Dark Matter in the Universe

Astronomers Discover Several Ultracool Brown Dwarfs in Solar Neighborhood

Researchers Identify Cause of Different Thermal Conductivities in Superatomic Structural Analogues

Notre Dame Astronomers Produce Clearest Picture of Galaxy Formation

University of Rochester Scientists Take Major Step Forward in Laser Fusion Research

International Research Team Uses Extensive Simulation to Determine How Gravitational Waves are Triggered

KIT, SPC Receive EU SOFT Innovation Prize for Fusion Research for Development of Superconductor Concept

Rice University Scientists Explain How Carbon-Based Life Developed on Earth

RHUL Adds New Processing Capacity to Large Hadron Collider’s Grid Computing Facility

New Tool Can Give Quick Snapshot of Individual Plasma Experiments in PPPL’s NSTX-U

Mysterious X-Ray Signal from Clusters of Galaxies Creates Excitement Among Astronomers

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Studies Rapid Nuclear Motions in Nature’s Light-Dependent Processes

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