First T2K neutrino event observed at Super-Kamiokande
Updated: 2010-02-25 16:30:59
Physicists from the Japanese-led multinational T2K collaboration announced today that they had made the first detection of a neutrino which had travelled all the way under Japan from their neutrino beamline at the J-PARC facility in Tokai village (about an hour north of Tokyo by train) to the gigantic Super-Kamiokande underground detector near the west coast of Japan, 295 km (185 miles) away from Tokai.
As physicists from Fermilab’s Tevatron collider experiments, CDF and DZero, prepare to share their newest results at upcoming winter 2010 physics conferences, they took a few moments recently to look back on the accomplishments of 2009.
“By every measure,” said DZero spokesperson and University of Manchester physicist Stefan Soldner-Rembold, “the Tevatron set new records and built [...]
The curvy MINOS surface building at Fermilab has a new neighbor. The new neutrino experiment in town recently moved in right next door. 
Three decades ago, no one had ever heard of particle astrophysics. How could the tiniest pieces of matter and the biggest objects in the universe coexist in a single field of science? Last month, the American Institute of Physics and the American Astronomical Society honored two scientists who, more than any others, made particle astrophysics, if not a household name, a new scientific discipline.
Jets of particles streaming from black holes in far-away galaxies operate differently than previously thought, according to a study published today in Nature. The new study reveals that most of the jet's light—gamma rays, the universe's most energetic form of light—is created much farther from the black hole than expected and suggests a more complex shape for the jet.
A Type Ia supernova caused by accreting material produces significant X-ray emission prior to the explosion.
New images from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope show where supernova remnants emit radiation a billion times more energetic than visible light. The images bring astronomers a step closer to understanding the source of some of the universe’s most energetic particles--cosmic rays.
This composite image shows the effects of two galaxies caught in the act of merging.
Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, two spectacular tails of X-ray emission have been seen trailing behind a galaxy.
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
An elliptical galaxy in the Fornax cluster that contains an ultraluminous X-ray source.