Tag: Astronomy and space

Astronomers have spotted a massive object that could be the first free-floating black hole ever observed using gravitational microlensing. The team of researchers was...

Are you out there? According to calculations by physicists at the University of Edinburgh, an alien civilization could use quantum signals as a method...

Atomic transition Kinks in the gravitational-wave signal from merging black holes could reveal the presence of ultralight bosons. (Courtesy: LIGO/T Pyle)" width="635" height="357"> Evidence for...

Physicists have created a framework for better understanding the super-dense matter inside neutron stars by combining observations from gravitational-wave detectors and conventional telescopes with...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the latest data from its €450m Gaia mission. It contains information about billions of stars in our Milky Way, a...

Science Bulletin 10.1016/j.scib.2022.05.021. © 2022 Science China Press. Reproduced with permission of Elsevier"> Scientists in China have released a new geologic map of the...

Taken from the June 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World...

New physics, in the form of a “fifth force”, could be responsible for the odd and unexplained arrangement of dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky...

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, we meet Shep Doeleman, who is the founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope. He...

Taken from the May 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World...

If a nearby exoplanet was populated by mountains, oceans and lifeforms, all we would see using today’s telescopes is a few blurry pixels. Therefore,...

Taken from the May 2022 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World...