No matter the size of a nuclear party, some protons and neutrons will always pair up and dance
Findings on short-range nuclear interactions will help scientists investigate neutron stars and heavy radioactive nuclei.
Findings on short-range nuclear interactions will help scientists investigate neutron stars and heavy radioactive nuclei.
The fast radio bursts are likely generated by a magnetar, the most magnetic type of star in the universe.
Nicholas Demos, a first-generation college graduate and MathWorks Fellow in MIT’s Kavli Institute, is improving our ability to listen to the cosmos.
MIT alumna and two others honored for discoveries in black hole physics.
Analysis of Event Horizon Telescope observations from 2009 to 2017 reveals turbulent evolution of the M87* black hole image.
Evidence indicates phosphine, a gas associated with living organisms, is present in the habitable region of Venus’ atmosphere.
A binary black hole merger likely produced gravitational waves equal to the energy of eight suns.
Researchers suggest a novel process to explain the collision of a large black hole and a much smaller one.
By making their own lava and cooled glass, scientists find these materials likely aren’t responsible for the unexpected glow of some exoplanets.
A colliding star may have triggered the drastic transformation.
“Light squeezer” reduces quantum noise in lasers, could enhance quantum computing and gravitational-wave detection.
Study shows LIGO’s 40-kilogram mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects, revealing the “spooky popcorn of the universe.”
Neptune-sized planet may be remnant core of a much larger planet.
Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected.
Danielle Frostig, a physics graduate student, is developing an instrument to study how the heaviest elements in the universe are produced.