(Phys.org) —The American Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics Richard Feynman once described turbulence as "the most important unsolved problem of classical physics", because a description of the phenomenon from first principles ...
General Physics
Apr 3, 2013
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An international team of scientists has observed four super-massive black holes at the center of galaxies, which may provide new information on how these central black hole systems operate. Their findings are published in ...
Astronomy
Dec 10, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-trillion-watt laser at the University of Rochester has simulated a stellar jet -- an outpouring of matter from a fledgling star -- with unprecedented realism.
General Physics
Nov 20, 2009
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The European Union and Romania laid Friday the cornerstone of a research hub due to host the world's most powerful laser.
General Physics
Jun 14, 2013
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For the first time, a European research team involving the University of Göttingen has discovered the remains of a nova in a galactic globular cluster. The remnant is located near the centre of the globular cluster Messier ...
Astronomy
Apr 30, 2019
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(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 team announced its ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2012
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(Phys.org)—In their search for habitable worlds, astronomers have started to consider exomoons, or those likely orbiting planets outside the solar system. In a new study, a pair of researchers has found that exomoons are ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- A loose group of stars that was known for over 180 years but never before studied in detail has been revealed to be an important new tool in the quest to understand the evolution of stars like the Sun, and in ...
Astronomy
Jun 22, 2012
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A small team of astrophysicists from the California Institute of Technology, the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and the University of Amsterdam has discovered a binary system with two stars so small ...
(Phys.org) -- Because astronomy and astrophysics are still so much a mixture of theory, conjecture and generally difficult to measure phenomenon, at least as compared with many of the other sciences, one of the most highly ...
