Simulations reveal surprising electron temperatures near M87 black hole’s event horizon
Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists sharpen their understanding about the environment beyond a black hole’s ‘shadow,’ material just…
Crew-11 launch to stream live on Netflix, Prime: Here’s how to watch
The launch of four astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station known as Crew-11 will be…
Study outlines alternative approach to detecting inelastic dark matter particles
Despite knowing with a high degree of certainty that dark matter exists, we do not (yet) know what…
A new open-source program for quantum physics helps researchers obtain results in record time
Schematic of the RK4 steps. Dark green objects mark real or complex buffers while blue objects mark the…
New image reveals sharply curved plasma jet at heart of mysterious galaxy
A new image of galaxy OJ 287 reveals for the first time the sharply curved, ribbon-like structure of…
Simulating the Hawking effect and other quantum field theory predictions with polariton fluids
Cavity sketches the experimental system, showing the laser beam with its spatially structured wavefront (orange) that pumps the…
Early human ancestors showed extreme size differences between males and females
New research by UAlbany anthropologist Adam D. Gordon finds substantial sexual dimorphism in some of our early human…
New long-period radio transient discovered
XMM-Newton EPIC-PN image cutout of the field of ASKAP J1448−6856 showing a point source detected 2″ away from…
Physicists explain previously unknown microscopic mechanism
Credit: ACS Nano (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c05845 Physicists at Osnabrück University have examined individual water molecules on the calcite…
From thousands of defects, one magnesium oxide qubit emerges as a quantum contender
Magnesium atoms (orange) and oxygen atoms (red) surround the nitrogen-vacancy center in magnesium oxide, shown by a transparent…