The quantum world operates according to different rules than the classical macroscopic world around us, making the impossible possible. Physicists plan to use quantum entanglement…
Strange spots in the Earth’s crust are remnants of a massive collision
The collision with a celestial body called Theia 4.5 billion years ago left behind remains deep inside the Earth – and also created the Moon.…
The most detailed image of cosmic rays published: it defies modern physics
Scientists have revealed new details about the plasma jet of 3C 279, a flare with a supermassive black hole at its core. Using a network…
The “twisted” binary star turned out to be an orphan planet “factory”.
The authors of the new work modeled the behavior of planets around binary stars and came to the conclusion that under such conditions it is…
The collision of two neutron stars produces huge amounts of rare metals
The collision produced a gamma-ray burst that is one of the largest ever observed by astronomers. The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (FGST) and the…
Exoplanets. “James Webb” directly examined the four outsiders
The James Webb Infrared Space Telescope has obtained new live images of the outsized system around the star HR 8799. Observational data allowed to recalculate…