Physics
Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole is a Sloppy Eater
Like most galaxies, our Milky Way has a dark monster in its middle: an enormous black hole with the mass…
NASA’s Particle-Hunting ISS-CREAM Will Be Anything But Vanilla
Balloon-based research on cosmic particles that began over a century ago will get a big boost next year -- all…
Cold Fusion Experiment Maybe Holds Promise … Possibly … Hang on a Sec ….
Cold fusion has been called one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs that might likely never happen. On the surface, it…
Space Station Detector Finds Extra Antimatter in Space, Maybe Dark Matter
The first results from the largest and most complex scientific instrument on board the International Space Station has provided tantalizing…
The Secret of the Stars
"Say, do you like mystery stories? Well we have one for you. The concept: relativity." Well look at that, it's…
Watch a Million Particles Collide
What happens when you give 1,000,000 particles their own gravity and spring repulsion and send them out to play? Watch…
Don’t Tell Bones: Are We One Step Closer to “Beaming Up?”
It's a crazy way to travel, spreading a man's molecules all over the Universe... While we're still a very long…
Stephen Hawking and CERN LHC Team Each Win $3 Million Prize
Stephen Hawking visited the Large Hadron Collider's underground tunnel at Europe's CERN particle physics research center in 2006. Hawking and…
Black Hole Jets Might Be Molded by Magnetism
Visible-light Hubble image of the jet emitted by the 3-billion-solar-mass black hole at the heart of galaxy M87 (Feb. 1998)…
A Virtual Galactic Smash-Up!
An online simulator for galactic collisions (Adrian Price-Whelan/Columbia University) Have you ever had the desire to build your own galaxies,…