Scientists Use Rare ‘Einstein Cross’ to Discover Unexpectedly Mature Stars in 8 Billion-Year-Old Galaxy
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have used a rare “Einstein Cross” gravitational lens to investigate a young galaxy…
Pixelated quantum-dot superlattice LEDs | Nature
Rainò, G. et al. Superfluorescence from lead halide perovskite quantum dot superlattices. Nature 563, 671–675 (2018). Article ADS …
Stephen Hawking’s infamous black hole paradox could be solved — if the universe has 7 dimensions
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Stephen Hawking’s black hole information paradox could be solved — if the universe has 7 dimensions
A new theoretical study suggests that black holes may never fully evaporate, which contradicts an infamous Stephen Hawking…
What Happens When Light Goes Boom? Part 1: The Scientist Who Stared at a Glow
I want you to imagine a scene. It’s the red carpet. It’s the night of the Oscars, or…
How physicists found a new type of magnet hiding in plain sight
On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of…
Physicists witness pinpricks of darkness moving faster than the speed of light — without breaking the laws of relativity
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Shattering Einstein’s block universe rescues the flow of time
Einstein’s theory of relativity appears to drain time of its most familiar feature: its flow. If spacetime is…
Two supermassive black holes are now heading for a Universe-shaking collision
Astronomers have spotted what appears to be two supermassive black holes locked in a death spiral at the…
Michel Mayor, Nobel laureate in Physics: ‘People think humanity is eternal, but we are animals and we will become extinct’ | Science
Michel Mayor’s life could have ended in one of the worst deaths imaginable. In 1968, this Swiss mountaineering…