University of Leicester

Solved: The Mystery of Earth’s Theta Aurora

The mystery of the northern lights – aurora - spans time beyond history and to cultures of both the southern…

10 years ago

Thousands Of Supermassive Black Holes Could Lurk In New X-Ray Data

Supermassive black holes likely are behind most of the nearly 100,000 new X-ray sources plotted by the Swift X-ray Telescope,…

11 years ago

Why Teleportation Could Be Far Slower Than Walking

It always looked so easy in the Star Trek episodes. "Two to beam up," Captain James T. Kirk would say from the…

11 years ago

X-ray Burst May Be the First Sign of a Supernova

GRB 080913, a distant supernova detected by Swift. This image merges the view through Swift's UltraViolet and Optical Telescope, which…

12 years ago