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Sep 16, 2018

The “Dark Matter” of Bizarre Superconductors

Posted by in categories: cosmology, information science, quantum physics, robotics/AI

Machine-learning algorithms are helping to unravel the quantum behaviour of a type of superconductor that has baffled physicists for decades.

Researchers used artificial intelligence to spot hidden order in images of a bizarre state in high-temperature superconductors.

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Sep 16, 2018

The New Hunt for Dark Matter

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In the over two-decades-long search for dark matter, scientists so far have come up short. In recent years though, construction of new experiments and upgrades to already existing detectors are giving new hope that we’re closer than ever to understanding dark matter.

One of those new efforts is SABRE, an international collaboration that will house multiple detectors working in tandem in the southern and northern hemispheres: two at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory, and another at an underground lab in an Australian gold mine.

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Sep 13, 2018

Opportunity, Phone Home!

Posted by in categories: cosmology, space travel

The dust is settling on the Red Planet. Is the remaining Mars Exploration Rover about to rise and shine after three months of slumber? MER Project Manager John Callas returns with a realistic yet hopeful assessment. He also tells us what Opportunity will be asked to do after we hear from her. Planetary Society Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla returns with a preview of China’s next two missions to the Moon, one of which will make the first-ever farside landing. How close is the nearest black hole? We’ll get the answer as Bruce and Mat explore the night sky in this week’s What’s Up.

Wake up Opportunity!

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Sep 11, 2018

This Is Why Dark Energy Must Exist, Despite Recent Reports To The Contrary

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An Oxford physicist tries to cast doubt on dark energy, but the data says otherwise.

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Sep 10, 2018

Galaxy Punches Through Neighbor to Spawn Giant Ring of Black Holes

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New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveal a very bright source of X-rays that is likely powered by either a ring of stellar-mass black holes or neutron stars located 300 million light-years from Earth.

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Sep 9, 2018

Taking the First Picture of a Black Hole

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ESO, european organisation for astronomical research in the southern hemisphere.

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Sep 6, 2018

Scientist Passed Over for Nobel Wins $3M, Donates It

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a PhD student at Cambridge University some five decades ago when she made an astronomical discovery while reviewing data from a radio telescope: faint, repeating pulses of radio waves.

These signals came to be known as pulsars, a type of neutron star described by Scientific American as “a city-sized collapsed core of a massive sun that is made of degenerate matter and throws off lighthouse-like beams of radio waves.” The discovery was a leap forward: It pointed to the existence of black holes, provided evidence for gravitational waves, and much more.

It also yielded a 1974 Nobel Prize—but not for Bell Burnell. Instead, the prize went to Antony Hewish, Bell Burnell’s PhD supervisor, the Guardian reports.

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Sep 5, 2018

Jet Of Material From Neutron Star Collision Appears To Eclipse Light Speed

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

When two neutron stars collided in August of 2017, the resulting black hole emitted a jet of cosmic material at extremely high speed.

As reported by the Inquisitr in June 2018, the collision of two neutron stars in the cosmic event known as GW170817, perceived by humans in August of last year, appears to have created a black hole. It also appears to have created a jet of superfast material, detected and measured by a collection of National Science Foundation radio telescopes, and the results of those measurements seemed to show the jet moving at nearly four times the speed of light, an impossibility in our current understanding of the laws of physics.

In observations less than half a year apart, the jet seemed to cover a distance greater than two light years. Since a light year is defined as the distance light can travel through a vacuum in a year, that would indicate that the jet was hurtling toward Earth at nearly four times the speed of light, according to Space.com.

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Aug 31, 2018

Our universe could be one of an infinite number of universes

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We could be living in a multiverse with an infinite number of universes.

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Aug 30, 2018

Scientists Discover Possible First Proof of Parallel Universes

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We can’t entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model.


A study on the strange Cold Spot in space may prove that we live in a multiverse.

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