A ‘mysterious giant’ behind binary black holes? Astronomers uncover first evidence of a third compact object
Gravitational wave events released by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. Credit: SHAO The binary black holes in the universe are…
Frustrated electron hopping from the orbital configuration in a two-dimensional lattice
Stewart, G. R. Heavy-fermion systems. Rev. Mod. Phys. 56, 755–787 (1984). ADS Google Scholar Bergman, D. L., Wu,…
An Astrophysicist Proposes We Send a Spacecraft to Visit a Black Hole : ScienceAlert
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the Universe – a reputation not helped by…
Neither light nor heat… but radiation
If I ask you to tell me what comes to your mind when I tell you the word…
Quarter- and half-filled quantum Hall states and their topological orders revealed by daughter states in bilayer graphene
Our devices (device 1 and device 2) consist of BLG encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and graphite…
Two bold dark matter theories could reveal the universe’s missing mass
Two fresh ideas are giving scientists new ways to think about how the universe’s hidden mass came to…
Scientists achieve direct measurement of quantum metric tensor in black phosphorus
Researchers have successfully measured the quantum metric tensor in solids for the first time. Credit: Keun Su Kim…
Kinetic turbulence drives MHD equilibrium change via 3D reconnection
The 3D helical flux ropes in VEST Two essential magnetic field components, the poloidal and toroidal fields, are…
Archaeologists find oldest evidence of humans on ‘Hobbit’s’ island neighbor—who they were remains a mystery
Stone tools were excavated from Calio, Sulawesi, and dated to over 1.04 million years ago. The scale bars…
Cicadas sing in perfect sync with pre-dawn light
Power spectra of dawn choruses at location I. Colored thin lines are raw power spectral densities of the…