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Fermi telescope explores new energy extremes

(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A Newtonian system that mimics the baldness of rotating black holes

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rotating black hole has been described as one of nature's most perfect objects. As described by the Kerr solution of Einstein's gravitational field equations, its spacetime geometry is ...

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X-ray 'echoes' map a supermassive black hole's environs

(Phys.org) -- An international team of astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton satellite has identified a long-sought X-ray "echo" that promises a new way to probe supersized ...

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created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hall effect at the speed of light: How can you demonstrate relativistic effects with your mobile phone?

The relativistic Hall effect describing objects rotating at speeds comparable with the speed of light has been reported.

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created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8

Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored ...

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created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (88) | comments 256 | with audio podcast

Mysterious objects at the edge of the electromagnetic spectrum

The human eye is crucial to astronomy. Without the ability to see, the luminous universe of stars, planets and galaxies would be closed to us, unknown forever. Nevertheless, astronomers cannot shake their ...

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created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (36) | comments 71 | with audio podcast

X-ray monitoring mission comes to an end

On Dec. 30, 1995, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) was launched into orbit on a mission to observe and study X-ray sources in space. For 16 years, the satellite circled Earth, detecting X-rays ...

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created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA's RXTE captures thermonuclear behavior of unique neutron star

(PhysOrg.com) -- A neutron star is the closest thing to a black hole that astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. In October ...

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created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Pasta-shaped radio waves beamed across Venice

A group of Italian and Swedish researchers appears to have solved the problem of radio congestion by cleverly twisting radio waves into the shape of fusilli pasta, allowing a potentially infinite number of channels to be ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 53 | with audio podcast

NASA's proposed 'InSight' lander would peer to the center of Mars in 2016

A Phoenix-like lander that would mine the deepest hole yet into Mars- to a depth of 5 meters – and unveil the nature of the mysterious deep interior and central core of the Red Planet is under consideration ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Gamma-ray bursts' highest power side unveiled by Fermi telescope

(PhysOrg.com) -- Detectable for only a few seconds but possessing enormous energy, gamma-ray bursts are difficult to capture because their energy does not penetrate the Earth's atmosphere. Now, thanks to an orbiting telescope, ...

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created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Pulsars: The Universe's gift to physics

Pulsars, superdense neutron stars, are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the Universe. Research on these extreme and exotic objects already has produced two Nobel Prizes. Pulsar researchers now are poised ...

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created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 47 | with audio podcast


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