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Giant black holes lurking in survey data
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used cutting-edge infrared surveys of the sky to discover a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermass...
Livermore experiments illuminate how order arises in the cosmos
Oct 09, 2012 (SPX)
One of the unsolved mysteries of contemporary science is how highly organized structures can emerge from the random motion of particles. This applies to many si...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012: Particle control in a quantum world
Oct 09, 2012 (SPX)
Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland have independently invented and developed methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles while preserving their...
Black hole surprise in ancient star cluster
Oct 08, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers have made the unexpected discovery of two black holes inside an ancient cluster of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The research, published in th...
NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers a New Black Hole in our Galaxy
Oct 08, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by ...
Hi-fi single photons
Oct 08, 2012 (SPX)
Many quantum technologies - such as cryptography, quantum computing and quantum networks - hinge on the use of single photons. While she was at the Kastler Bros...
More certainty on uncertainty's quantum mechanical role
Oct 08, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists who study the ultra-small world of atoms know it is impossible to make certain simultaneous measurements, for example finding out both the location a...
McGill researchers explore big questions about universe
Oct 08, 2012 (SPX)
A research team led by McGill University Physics Prof. Alexander Maloney is among the winners of the New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology International Gran...
First images of Landau levels revealed
Oct 04, 2012 (SPX)
Physicists have directly imaged Landau Levels - the quantum levels that determine electron behaviour in a strong magnetic field - for the first time since they ...
World's First Glimpse of Black Hole Launchpad
Oct 03, 2012 (SPX)
The current issue of Science Express, the online advance publication of the journal, features a paper by the Event Horizon telescope team - a collaboration whic...
Peering to the Edge of a Black Hole
Oct 03, 2012 (SPX)
Using a continent-spanning telescope, an international team of astronomers has peered to the edge of a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. For the fir...
Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes
Oct 02, 2012 (SPX)
According to Einstein, whenever massive objects interact, they produce gravitational waves - distortions in the very fabric of space and time - that ripple outw...
Measuring the universe's 'exit door'
Oct 02, 2012 (SPX)
The point of no return: In astronomy, it's known as a black hole - a region in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can es...
A Clock that Will Last Forever
Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)
Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe. This is the "wow" factor behind a device known as a "space-time ...
Light squeezed on a quantum scale
Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of physicists has pushed the boundaries on ultra-precise measurement by harnessing quantum light waves in a new way. It is one thing to be...
NuSTAR Celebrates First 100 Days
Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)
Tomorrow, Sept. 21, 2012, will mark 100 days since NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, launched into space from the L-1011 "Stargazer" airc...
Experiment in University of Florida laboratory corrects prediction in quantum theory
Sep 21, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of scientists is rewriting a page from the quantum physics rulebook using a University of Florida laboratory once dubbed the coldest spot ...
University of Granada investigates location of the Island of Stability of Super-Heavy Elements
Sep 20, 2012 (SPX)
An international research group - with the participation of the University of Granada - has achieved to measure the effects of layers on super-heavy elements, w...
Spacetime ripples from dying black holes could help reveal how they formed
Sep 18, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers from Cardiff University have discovered a new property of black holes: their dying tones could reveal the cosmic crash that produced them. Black hol...
University of Toronto scientists cast doubt on renowned uncertainty principle
Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)
Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, formulated by the theoretical physicist in 1927, is one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics. In its most familia...
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