#Black hole collision may have exploded with light

“#Black hole collision may have exploded with light” Artist’s concept of a supermassive black hole and its surrounding disk of gas. Embedded within this disk are two smaller black holes orbiting one another. Using data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at Palomar Observatory, researchers have identified a flare of light suspected to have come…

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#CNO fusion neutrinos from the sun observed for the first time

“#CNO fusion neutrinos from the sun observed for the first time” The Borexino detector. Credit: Borexino A team of researchers working on the Borexino project has announced that they have observed carbon/nitrogen/oxygen (CNO) fusion neutrinos from the sun for the first time. Co-spokesman for the group, Gioacchino Ranucci, a physicist at the University of Milan,…

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#3-D-printed neutrino detectors

“#3-D-printed neutrino detectors” Example of a plastic Scintillator detector (left) and a stage of its 3D-printing process (right). Credit: CERN Plastic scintillators are one of the most used active materials in high-energy physics. Their properties make it possible to track and distinguish between particle topologies. Among other things, scintillators are used in the detectors of…

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#A blue spark to shine on the origin of the universe

“#A blue spark to shine on the origin of the universe” Artistic representation of the new fluorescent molecule that can shed light on the elusive nature of neutrinos. Credit: University of the Basque Country An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by researchers from DIPC, Ikerbasque and UPV/EHU, has demonstrated that it is possible to build…

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#Helicopter or cartwheel? What happens when a molecule collides with a surface

“#Helicopter or cartwheel? What happens when a molecule collides with a surface” laboratory where new experiments on molecule-surface interactions were conducted.Swansea University researchers have demonstrated for the first time an experimental determination of a scattering matrix, opening up new opportunities for studying and modelling molecule-surface interactions. Credit: Gil Alexandrowicz/Swansea University What happens when a molecule…

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#A structural light switch for magnetism

“#A structural light switch for magnetism” Depiction of the antiferromagnet CoF2 transforming into a ferrimagnet under optical excitation. The red and blue arrows denote the original anti-parallel spins. Terahertz light pulses induce changes in the crystal structure that polarize the spins, creating a new magnetic state which can be used for information storage and processing. Credit: Jörg…

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#Brexit’s and research networks: Lower efficiency, reorganization of research communities

“#Brexit’s and research networks: Lower efficiency, reorganization of research communities” The collaboration network of European projects belonging to the Horizon 2020 Excellent Science program, showing only the top 1,000 organizations involved. U.K. institutions are shown in orange, European institutions are in blue. Credit: the authors and Kampal Data Solutions The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the…

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#Experiment confirms 50-year-old theory describing how an alien civilization could exploit a black hole

“#Experiment confirms 50-year-old theory describing how an alien civilization could exploit a black hole” Credit: CC0 Public Domain A 50-year-old theory that began as speculation about how an alien civilization could use a black hole to generate energy has been experimentally verified for the first time in a Glasgow research lab. In 1969, British physicist…

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