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Supermassive black holes sit in 'eye of their own storms,' studies find - Phys.org
Gigantic black holes lurk at the center of virtually every galaxy, including ours, but we’ve lacked a precise picture of what impact they have on their surroundings. However, a University of Chicago-led group of scientists has used data from a recently launch…
Physicists achieve near-zero friction on macroscopic scales - Phys.org
For the first time, physicists in China have virtually eliminated the friction felt between two surfaces at scales visible to the naked eye. In demonstrating “structural superlubricity,” the team, led by Quanshui Zheng at Tsinghua University, have resolved a …
2.6-million-year-old jawbone changes the story of human history - Earth.com
A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives and their diets.
A new class of strange one-dimensional particles - Phys.org
Physicists have long categorized every elementary particle in our three-dimensional universe as being either a boson or a fermion—the former category mostly capturing force carriers like photons, the latter including the building blocks of everyday matter lik…
Jupiter’s New Measurements: Flatter, Squashed, Still the Biggest Boy - Gizmodo
“Textbooks will need to be updated.”
Did we just see a black hole explode? Physicists think so—and it could explain (almost) everything - Phys.org
In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe capable of producing such energy—100,000 times more than the…