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6+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1818+ words) How do you map something you can’t see? Scientists may have found a way If there’s one thing everyone knows about black holes, it’s that nothing escapes their grasp – not even light. Even if you could send a probe into…...

4+ hour, 2+ min ago  (691+ words) Artistic rendering of Penrose super-radiance: electromagnetic waves with selected rotation patterns are amplified as they interact with a system that appears to rotate at superluminal speeds. (CREDIT: Dalila Pasotti and Hadiseh Nasari A black hole may be millions of light-years…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago  (1024+ words) CPT symmetry holds that the laws of physics remain unchanged when charge, spatial coordinates, and the direction of time are all reversed simultaneously. (CREDIT: Physical Review Letters) The Big Bang may not mark the absolute beginning of everything. A controversial…...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago  (448+ words) In 1917, two years after completing his theory of general relativity, Albert Einstein built the first modern cosmological model. His universe curved back on itself like the surface of a sphere. To make the math work, he assumed the universe was…...

8+ hour, 42+ min ago  (577+ words) An astronomer based at Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (AOP) has been awarded funding of two million euro to investigate how the first stars in the universe “switched on the lights” following the Big Bang. Professor Jorick Vink said the European…...

12+ hour, 27+ min ago  (506+ words) SFL Educational News Service The Core Concept: The Autonomous Model Builder (AMBer) is an artificial intelligence system that autonomously designs theoretical particle physics models to help explain the non-zero mass and behavior of neutrinos. Why It Matters: Explaining why neutrinos…...

9+ hour, 48+ min ago  (396+ words) What happens when an object ventures dangerously close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole? A new study has delivered an answer that challenges years of scientific expectations, For years, researchers monitored these objects expecting at least some of them…...

9+ hour, 34+ min ago  (46+ words) Researchers have recreated the physics of extracting energy from a spinning black hole using a stationary device that produces synthetic ultrafast rotation. The achievement transforms a long-standing theoretical idea into a practical experiment and could inspire new advances in optics,…...

11+ hour, 2+ min ago  (806+ words) Skywatch: The stellar circle of life, part one: A star is born Pioneer Press Every so often I like to go into more detail about the life and times of stars we see night after night provided clouds don’t get…...