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Siraj & Loeb explore the possibility that accretion flares resulting from the tidal disruption of small Oort Cloud bodies by a putative primordial black hole could power an observable optical signal that could be searched for with the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Image credit: Sci-News.com / Zdeněk Bardon / ESO.

Physicists Use Rapidly-Spinning Black Holes to Look for Dark Matter

Apr 14, 2021 by News Staff

Ultralight bosons — hypothetical particles with masses less than a billionth the mass of an electron — could be responsible for the Universe’s...

New Measurements of Muon’s Magnetic Moment Strengthen Evidence of New Physics

Apr 8, 2021 by News Staff

The Standard Model, scientists’ best description of the makeup and behavior of the Universe yet, very precisely predicts the g-factor of a fundamental...

New Exotic Isotope of Fluorine Discovered: Fluorine-13

Apr 5, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of U.S. physicists has created a new isotope of fluorine, fluorine-13 (13F), via a charge-exchange reaction between a beam of oxygen-13 (13O) and...

Trapped antihydrogen atoms being cooled. Image credit: Chukman So.

CERN Physicists Cool Antimatter Using Laser Light for First Time

Apr 5, 2021 by News Staff

Physicists from the ALPHA (Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus) Collaboration at CERN have successfully demonstrated laser cooling of antihydrogen, the...

The optical microresonator filled with dye solution (yellow); on the right is a microscope objective used to observe and analyze the light emerging from the resonator. Image credit: Gregor Hübl / University of Bonn.

Physicists Observe New Phase in Quantum Condensate of Light

Apr 2, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Physicists at the University of Bonn have experimentally observed a new, previously unknown phase in the photon Bose-Einstein condensate. The optical microresonator...

Illustration of a tetraquark. Imager credit: CERN / CC BY-SA.

CERN Physicists Discover Four New Tetraquarks

Mar 24, 2021 by News Staff

Physicists from the LHCb Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have observed four new exotic particles: Zcs(4000)+, Zcs(4220)+, X(4685),...

The decay of a B0 meson into a K0 and an electron-positron pair in the LHCb detector, which is used for a sensitive test of lepton universality in the Standard Model. Image credit: CERN.

Intriguing New Results from CERN Challenge Standard Model of Particle Physics

Mar 23, 2021 by News Staff

The Standard Model of particle physics currently provides our best description of fundamental particles and their interactions. The new results from CERN’s...

Illustration of the Zcs tetraquark. Image credit: BESIII Collaboration.

Chinese Physicists Observe New Tetraquark

Mar 22, 2021 by News Staff

Physicists from the Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) Collaboration at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider in China have detected the first candidate for...

View of the tunnel where the TOTEM experiment’s proton detectors are located. Image credit: TOTEM Collaboration.

Particle Physicists Confirm Existence of Odderon

Mar 19, 2021 by News Staff

Physicists from the TOTEM (TOTal cross section, Elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation Measurement) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider...

Blázquez-Salcedo et al. constructed a specific example of a class of traversable wormholes in four space-time dimensions. Image credit: NASA / G. Bacon, STScI.

New Research Explores Possibility of Traveling through Microscopic Wormholes

Mar 16, 2021 by News Staff

The wormholes are theoretical portals through space-time that could create shortcuts for long journeys across our Universe. They have entered modern physics...

Digital art by Les Bossinas, Cortez III Service Corp., 1998.

Faster-Than-Light Travel is Possible, Theoretical Study Suggests

Mar 15, 2021 by News Staff

A new theoretical paper, published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, reignites the debate about the possibility of superluminal (faster-than-light)...

A visualization of the Glashow resonance event detected by IceCube. Image credit: IceCube Collaboration.

High-Energy Antineutrino Detection Supports 60-Year-Old Theory

Mar 11, 2021 by News Staff

On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light carrying 6.3...

Photograph of the torsion pendulum and the mounted source mass. Image credit: Westphal et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03250-7.

Physicists Measure Smallest Gravitational Field Yet

Mar 11, 2021 by News Staff

A team of physicists in Austria has measured the gravitational force between two gold spheres of 1.07 millimeter radius. Photograph of the torsion pendulum...

This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left followed by the appearance of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The formation of the first stars ends the cosmic dark ages, followed by the formation of galaxies. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Physicists Suggest Existence of New Type of Dark Energy

Mar 3, 2021 by News Staff

Recent measurements of the expansion rate of the Universe have plunged the standard model of cosmology, the ΛCDM model, into a crisis. In a new paper...

Träger et al. experimentally demonstrated a driven space-time crystal at room temperature: (a) sketch of the sample with one magnonic permalloy (Py) stripe and a coplanar waveguide; (b) snapshot of a time-resolved scanning transmission X-ray microscopy movie; the gray scale represents the mz component; (c) phase and amplitude map at fcw after FFT in time through each pixel of the scanning transmission X-ray microscopy movie; the color code shows the amplitude and phase information. Image credit: Träger et al., doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.057201.

Physicists Directly Image Space-Time Crystal

Mar 1, 2021 by News Staff

Space-time crystals are time-periodic self-organized structures postulated by the Nobel laureate in physics Frank Wilczek in 2012. In new research, physicists...

$Illustration showing the relationship between ice VI and XIX unit cells viewed down their c-axes, and the differences in their diffraction patterns, with color coding red for ice XIX and blue for ice VI. Image credit: University of Innsbruck.$