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Unusual Source of Light Discovered in Distant Galaxy

An international team of researchers analyzing decades of observations from many facilities, including NASA's Swift satellite, has discovered an unusual source of light in a galaxy some 90 million light-years away.

21 Nov 2014

Pitt Quantum Repository Project Awarded Dreyfus Special Grant

Remember constructing ball-and-stick models of molecules in your high school or college chemistry classes? Well, that might soon be a thing of the past for Pitt students looking to get a three-dimensional understanding of molecular structures.

21 Nov 2014

New Method to Estimate Magnetic Field of Distant Exoplanet

Scientists developed a new method which allows to estimate the magnetic field of a distant exoplanet, i.e., a planet, which is located outside the Solar system and orbits a different star. Moreover, they managed to estimate the value of the magnetic moment of the planet HD 209458b.The group of scientists including one of the researchers of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) published their article in the Science magazine.

21 Nov 2014

New 2-D materials Exhibit Exotic Quantum Properties for Nanoelectronics

Researchers at MIT say they have carried out a theoretical analysis showing that a family of two-dimensional materials exhibits exotic quantum properties that may enable a new type of nanoscale electronics.

21 Nov 2014

Astronomers Could Have Discovered a Massive Black Hole Ejected Into Space

Space: Astronomers have observed a mysterious phenomenon, which could be a massive black hole that has been ejected into space in connection with two galaxies colliding. This may be due to gravitational waves from the collision. The results are published in the scientific journal Monthly Notices, Royal Astronomical Society.

21 Nov 2014

Quantum Theory Could Redefine Understanding of Complexity

New Scientist magazine's 15 November edition features a "Big Idea" essay by CQT researchers Vlatko Vedral and Mile Gu. In the article, titled "Zen and the art of Quantum Complexity", Mile and Vlatko explain how quantum theory can redefine our understanding of complexity.

21 Nov 2014

LHCb Collaboration Discovers Two New Particles in the Baryon Family

Today the collaboration for the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of two new particles in the baryon family. The particles, known as the Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen before. A related particle, the Xi_b*0, was found by the CMS experiment at CERN in 2012. The LHCb collaboration submitted a paper reporting the finding to Physical Review Letters.

20 Nov 2014

Scientists Could Have Discovered a Recoiling Black Hole

In his general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein predicted that there are such things as gravitational waves. In fact, the very existence of these waves is the linchpin of the entire theory. Despite the great lengths that physicists have gone to in recent decades, however, they still have not managed to detect them directly with a measurement.

20 Nov 2014

Mysterious Alignments Discovered Between Spin Axes of Distant Quasars

Quasars are galaxies with very active supermassive black holes at their centres. These black holes are surrounded by spinning discs of extremely hot material that is often spewed out in long jets along their axes of rotation. Quasars can shine more brightly than all the stars in the rest of their host galaxies put together.

20 Nov 2014

Physicist Contributes to Discovery of Two Never-Before-Seen Baryonic Particles

A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences is the lead contributor to the discovery of two never-before-seen baryonic particles. The finding, which is the subject of a forthcoming article in Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society, 2014), is expected to have a major impact on the study of quark dynamics.

20 Nov 2014

Gassy Cloud Escapes from Gravitational Pull of Black Hole

Recent research shows that G2 came within 30 billion kilometers of the super-massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, yet managed to escape from the gravitational pull of the black hole.

20 Nov 2014

Leicester Scientists Pay Homage to NASA’s Swift Satellite and X-ray Telescope

The team at the UK Swift Science Data Centre, based at the University of Leicester, pays homage to NASA’s unique space telescope

20 Nov 2014

Gravity May Have Provided the Stability Needed for Early Universe to Survive Expansion

New research by a team of European physicists could explain why the universe did not collapse immediately after the Big Bang.

19 Nov 2014

Comparisons Between Atomic Clocks Confirm Constancy of Fundamental Constant

Atomic clocks prove the stability of the mass ratio of protons to electrons

19 Nov 2014

New Way to Detect Existence of Elusive Dark Matter

For years physicists have been looking for the universe's elusive dark matter, but so far no one has seen any trace of it. Maybe we are looking in the wrong place? Now physicists from University of Southern Denmark propose a new technique to detect dark matter.

19 Nov 2014

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Unusual Source of Light Discovered in Distant Galaxy

Pitt Quantum Repository Project Awarded Dreyfus Special Grant

New Method to Estimate Magnetic Field of Distant Exoplanet

New 2-D materials Exhibit Exotic Quantum Properties for Nanoelectronics

Astronomers Could Have Discovered a Massive Black Hole Ejected Into Space

Quantum Theory Could Redefine Understanding of Complexity

LHCb Collaboration Discovers Two New Particles in the Baryon Family

Scientists Could Have Discovered a Recoiling Black Hole

Mysterious Alignments Discovered Between Spin Axes of Distant Quasars

Physicist Contributes to Discovery of Two Never-Before-Seen Baryonic Particles

Gassy Cloud Escapes from Gravitational Pull of Black Hole

Leicester Scientists Pay Homage to NASA’s Swift Satellite and X-ray Telescope

Gravity May Have Provided the Stability Needed for Early Universe to Survive Expansion

Comparisons Between Atomic Clocks Confirm Constancy of Fundamental Constant

New Way to Detect Existence of Elusive Dark Matter

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