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Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 New event-horizon-telescope (EHT) images of M87* reveal

Astrophysics Gravitational waves shake the very fabric of the universe when black holes collide. Today we measure these events and use them to understand the cosmos. Now University of Copenhagen researchers and their international collaborators have published a treasure trove of new gravitational waves that may challenge our fundamental understanding of black holes, gravity, and the universe itself.

Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Trieste. Visiting Professor 2025-2026: From January 5 to January 23, 2026, and from February 3 to February 13, 2026.

Focused laser-like light that covers a wide range of frequencies is highly desirable for many scientific studies and for many applications, for instance quality control of manufacturing semiconductor electronic chips. But creating such broadband and coherent light has been difficult to achieve with anything but bulky energy-hungry tabletop devices.

International research team including Göttingen University identifies origins of niobium Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world's most promisin

Scientists from our top-rated Physics department have played a crucial role in verifying the quality of specialist materials destined for the magnets of ITER.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are celebrating the 10th anniversary of one of the 21st century's key scientific achievements - the first direct detection of gravitational waves. https://youtu.be/SqhFtkQ4f2c On14 September 2015, a signal arrived on Earth from a pair of remote black holes that had spiralled together and merged.

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged.

The University of Bern is participating in the international NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe mission (IMAP), which is due to be launched no earlier than 23 September 2025.

Are language models such as ChatGPT suitable as independent teaching assistants in the natural sciences? A research team at the University of Würzburg has investigated this question.

A team of researchers at the TechMed Centre of the University of Twente has transformed real sperm cells into tiny, magnetically controlled microrobots.

Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a new optical method to make extremely small metallic nanoparticles visible, as tiny as 1.8 nanometres.

What exactly happens when syngas is produced? New methods allow to observe the process in real time. This answered the question how catalysts work in detail. For many industrial applications one needs synthesis gas, also known as -Syngas-, a mixture of hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxiode (CO). In addition to the established production method via steam reforming, synthesis gas can alternatively-and even more energy-efficiently-be produced from methane (CH₄) and oxygen.

Three views of the same nebula, presented side by side. The left and middle images, which are labeled 'Hubble Optical' and 'Hubble Near IR', show the nebula at roughly the same scale.

A new National Institutes of Health-funded collaboration at Carnegie Mellon University is breaking down barriers to high-resolution, 3D imaging of tissues - technology that could revolutionize how doctors detect, diagnose and understand cancers like lung cancer. Leon Zhao of the Mellon College of Science is working with experts from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine to accelerate the path from lab discoveries to clinical tools.

How the brain is wired has been understood for a long-time, but how that wiring results in neural activity and cognition remains a mystery.

Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate student Yang Zhang (PhD '24) to discover a new equilibrium state of the magnetic field and its associated plasma. The solar corona, the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, is much less dense than the Sun's surface but is a million times hotter.

A world-travelling quantum device is making its only North American stop at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo.

Researchers at the National Graphene Institute , have produced the cleanest graphene yet, allowing quantum phenomena to appear in magnetic fields as weak as the Earth-s own. The breakthrough, reported in Nature by a team led by Professor Andre Geim , was achieved by placing a sheet of graphene just three atoms below cleaner bulk graphite.

A new kind of stellar explosion provides a novel way to probe the distant Universe, according to new results published today in Nature Astronomy.

CNRS press release dated 23 July 2025.

PARTICLE PHYSICS Physicists from the University of Copenhagen have begun using the gigantic magnetic fields of galaxy clusters to observe distant black holes in their search for an elusive particle that has stumped scientists for decades. It is a story of extremes that are hard to fathom. The heaviest structures in the universe, clusters of galaxies, are a quadrillion times more massive than the Sun.

While conventional computers store information in the form of bits, fundamental pieces of logic that take a value of either 0 or 1, quantum computers are based on qubits.

On earth, we are very familiar with ice, but ice is also found in space. This space ice still holds many secrets, because it is not easy to study.

A look into the throat of an active galaxy reveals a ring-shaped magnetic field that may explain extreme gamma radiation and neutrinos To the point A look into the heart of an active galaxy: Astronomers have captured an image of the origin of a cosmic jet.

The scalar magnetometer conceived by Roland Lammegger and Christoph Amtmann at the Institute of Experimental Physics at TU Graz opens up new possibilities in magnetic field measurement thanks to its further development.

An astonishing world record has been set at ETH Zurich with support from TU Wien: glass particles reveal their quantum properties - without having to be brought to extremely low temperatures, as was previously the case.

The process of scrambling two eggs-cracking them, whisking the yolk and whites, pouring the liquid into a frying pan, and stirring-can take several minutes.

News from Milena Barp describes her research work in Research Training Group (RTG) 2721 at Leipzig University as "very fruitful".

Posted on: 30 July 2025 Half a billion years ago nature evolved a remarkable trick: generating vibrant, shimmering colours via intricate, microscopic structures in feathers, wings and shells that reflect light in precise ways.