Little Red Dots frequently reveal clumpy morphologies, some of which bear hallmarks of active black holes
A Little Red Dot in the early Universe, spectroscopically confirmed at z = 6.759 (when the Universe was…
What Lies Within? New Image From a Mysterious Galaxy Asks Big Questions
A new image of galaxy OJ 287 reveals for the first time the sharply curved, ribbon-like structure of…
Dark matter detector succeeds in performing measurements with nearly no radioactive interference
The distillation plant ‘made in Münster’ for the dark matter experiment ‘XENONnT’ at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory…
Physicists Shatter Quantum Computing Record
In a Caltech lab, a computer screen showed thousands of tiny points of light—each one a single atom,…
Data from dark-energy observatories indicate universe may ‘end in a big crunch’ at 33 billion years old
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates…
Large moiré superstructure of stacked incommensurate charge density waves
Cao, Y. et al. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 43–50 (2018). Article CAS PubMed Google…
Potential smoking gun signature of supermassive dark stars found in JWST data
This image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope highlights the region of study by the JWST Advanced…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shows “Extreme Negative Polarization”. What Does That Mean?
A team of astronomers have presented the first polarimetric observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, finding that it has…
Scientists may be closing in on dark matter’s true identity
Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our…
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat…