Physics
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Blazar Jets
[/caption] Polar jets are often found around objects with spinning accretion disks – anything from newly forming stars to ageing…
Hawking(ish) Radiation Observed
In 1974, Steven Hawking proposed a seemingly ridiculous hypothesis. Black holes, the gravitational monsters from which nothing escapes, evaporate. To…
New Discovery at the Large Hadron Collider?
[/caption] Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider reported today they apparently have discovered a previously unobserved phenomenon in proton-proton collisions.…
Disturbance in the Force – A Spatially Varying Fine Structure Constant
[/caption] In order for astronomers to explore the outer reaches of our universe, they rely upon the assumption that the…
Scientists Say They Can Now Test String Theory
The idea of the “Theory of Everything” is enticing – that we could somehow explain all that is. String theory…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Strange Stars
[/caption] Atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. If you cram them together and heat them up you get…
Cosmologists Provide Closest Measure of Elusive Neutrino
[/caption] Cosmologists – and not particle physicists -- could be the ones who finally measure the mass of the elusive…
Magnetic Fields in Inter-cluster Space: Measured at Last
[/caption] The strength of the magnetic fields here on Earth, on the Sun, in inter-planetary space, on stars in our…
Andromeda’s Double Nucleus – Explained at Last?
In 1993, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped a close-up of the nucleus of the Andromeda galaxy, M31, and found that…
LHC Sets Record for Particle Collisions, Marks “New Territory” in Physics
Physicists at the CERN research center collided sub-atomic particles in the Large Hadron Collider on Tuesday at the highest speeds…