M87’s Black Hole in Motion: Stunning New Findings From the Event Horizon Telescope
Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, revealing new details about its rotation and the ...
Physicists Uncover a Hidden Quantum World Inside the Proton – And It’s Wilder Than We Thought
Protons are far from simple particles — they are swirling cauldrons of quarks, gluons, and quantum entanglement. Scientists ...
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1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang
A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...
The Many Lives of James Lovelock by Jonathan Watts
Lovelock’s Electron Capture Detector (ECD) was to change the way we see the world. It also revolutionized his thinking about the way our planet regulates itself.
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Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in 'magic-angle' graphene
Physicists measured how readily a current of electron pairs flows through 'magic-angle' graphene, a major step toward understanding how this unusual material superconducts. By determining how readily ...
Scientists Found Mysterious Sources of ‘Killer Electrons’ 100,000 Miles Away from Earth
Understanding chorus waves is vital, as they create fast-moving, highly energetic electrons (known as killer electrons) that ...
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Nearly Barrierless Four-Hole Water Oxidation Catalysis on Semiconductor Photoanodes with High Density of Accumulated Surface Holes
Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China University of Chinese Academy of ...
M87* observations catch the black hole's turbulent accretion flow
Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...
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Chirping chorus rings out from an unexpected part of outer space
They also observed long-sought-after evidence to support the theory — the observation of an ‘electron hole’, a conspicuous absence of electrons. Read the paper: Field–particle energy ...
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Both Hole Transfer and Cocatalysis Exhibited by Organometallic Complexes for Enhancing Water-Splitting Performance of the Photoreducing BiVO
Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy and Chemical Engineering of Gansu Province, School of Petrochemical Technology, Lanzhou University of Technology, Langongping Road 287, Lanzhou 730050, P. R. China ...
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Supermassive Black Hole Caught Doing Something Never Seen Before
As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is ... giving us one more strong piece of evidence to support the theory of what's behind the flares." The observations ...
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Black holes are spinning faster than expected, researchers find
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Supermassive black holes are spinning faster than previously thought, challenging the notion that they primarily form through galaxy mergers. Instead, their ...