Saturday, September 13, 2025

Black Hole Merger

"On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes."https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5537131/ligo-10-years-black-holes-hawking-theory-confirmed

Quantum Entanglement

"The concept of quantum entanglement is emblematic of the gap between classical and quantum physics."https://phys.org/news/2025-09-quantum-state-trio-entangled-photons.html#google_vignette

Friday, September 12, 2025

Quantum Algorithm

"Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers."https://interestingengineering.com/science/century-old-math-problem-quantum-solution

Behavior of Matter

"From matter’s behavior, measuring stars and galaxies reveals their normal matter contents."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/galaxy-cluster-broke-modified-gravity/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Apophis

"When the potentially hazardous asteroid 99942 Apophis makes its breathtakingly close flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029, more than 2 billion people across Africa and Western Europe will be able to watch it drift across the night sky."https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/apophis-flyby-in-2029-will-be-the-first-time-a-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-has-been-visible-to-the-naked-eye

Ancient life plot thickens

"Since February 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring a region on Mars known as Jezero Crater, a huge cavity believed to have once hosted a lake."https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/did-nasas-perseverance-rover-find-evidence-of-ancient-red-planet-life-the-plot-thickens?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4

Laboratory controlled conditions

"When it comes to finding out about the Universe in a scientific fashion, most of us think about performing experiments here on Earth under laboratory controlled conditions."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/spherex-jwst-comet-3i-atlas/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4