• Galaxy Cluster Mashups -The Most Violent Events in the Universe Since the Big Bang

    Updated: 2010-08-31 08:30:00
    This composite image shows the effects of a collision between two small galaxy clusters in the northern part of the galaxy cluster Abell 1758, located about 3.2 billion light years from Earth. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the...

  • Do Jupiter's Radio Emissions Hint that Dark Energy May Not Exist? (Today's Most Popular)

    Updated: 2010-08-31 08:00:00
    Utane Sawangwit and Tom Shanks of Durham University believe that errors on the “gold standard” cosmic microwave background results from the WMAP satellite that includes dark matter, dark energy and the exponential expansion after the big bang known as inflation...

  • Extraterrestrial Water Sources of the Milky Way Mapped

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:42:00
    The Herschel Space Observatory's HIFI instrument was designed to follow the water trail in the Universe over a wide range of scales, from the Solar System out to extragalactic sources. Early results, presented this week at the Herschel First Results...

  • Neutrino Discovery Could Reveal Why Antimatter Failed to Dominate the Universe

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:34:00
    A team of physicists, including some from MIT, has found surprising differences between the flavor-switching behavior of neutrinos and antineutrinos. If confirmed, the finding could help explain why matter, and not antimatter, dominates our universe. Neutrinos, elementary particles generated by...

  • Image of the Day: A Massive Jet of Color from a Black Hole 100,000 Light Years Long

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:14:00
    A new image from NASA's Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows a giant jet of particles that has been shot out from the vicinity of a type of supermassive black hole called a quasar. The jet is enormous, stretching...

  • A Moment of Zen: "If Historical Events had Facebook Status"

    Updated: 2010-08-31 07:05:00
    See more History Facebook Style at coolmaterial.com

  • First African School of Physics empowers students

    Updated: 2010-08-30 23:25:04
    Students from 17 African countries came together for the rare opportunity to learn about particle physics this month. Some African students have earned advanced science degrees but are looking for the specialized training in particle physics and its associated applications not usually offered on their own continent. The first African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications in Stellenbosch, South Africa, provided that training and financially supported some African students.

  • Supermassive Black Holes Interacting With Dark Matter Observed from Earth

    Updated: 2010-08-30 08:30:00
    Astrophysicists says that supermassive black hole – of the type that are usually found at the core of large galaxies – could release gamma ray jets that interact with surrounding dark matter that may be detectable on Earth. A new...

  • "CERN's LHC Will Create a Black Hole That Destroys Earth" -Courts Dismiss 'Mad Scientist' Case

    Updated: 2010-08-30 07:50:00
    Walter Wagner is at it again: but is this the last we'll hear from him? The most recent lawsuit to protest the dangers posed by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, has been dismissed. On 24 August,...

  • A Moment of Zen: A Tour of the Great Galaxies

    Updated: 2010-08-30 07:14:00

  • Cluster Collisions Switch on Radio Halos

    Updated: 2010-08-30 06:00:00
    This is a composite image of the northern part of the galaxy cluster Abell 1758, located about 3.2 billion light years from Earth.

  • The Search for 39 Billion Missing Suns Begins

    Updated: 2010-08-29 14:36:51
    Scientists working out of the CERN Labs in Switzerland have transported the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to NASA for preparation for space flight. The detector will aid the scientists in locating two elusive types of matter. When the space shuttle program's...

  • A Moment of Zen: A Merger of Great Galaxies

    Updated: 2010-08-29 07:00:00

  • Image of the Day: The Ghostly Beauty of Massive Star Death

    Updated: 2010-08-28 07:00:00
    Such a star death is violent even by the standards of our violent universe. If our Sun could become a supernova, which is can't because it's too puny, Earth's sky would would fill with the light of a sun that...

  • Particle Accelerators for Dummies?

    Updated: 2010-08-27 12:53:08
    In a fun Q&A piece, the HHMI Bulletin asked four researchers "What 'For Dummies' book are you most qualified to write?"

  • Wavelength Electronics Inc.

    Updated: 2010-08-27 11:02:31
    Ultra-stable, high precision laser diode drivers and temperature controllers with output up to 20 A for a wide range of applications from research to OEM integration. Detailed datasheets and online design tools simplify system integration.

  • B&W Tek Inc.

    Updated: 2010-08-27 11:01:53
    B&W Tek is an advanced instrumentation company producing optical spectroscopy and laser instruments for biomedical, physical, chemical, and research communities. B&W Tek also provides custom product development, design, and manufacturing.

  • Origins of the First Supermassive Black Holes Discovered

    Updated: 2010-08-27 08:08:00
    Astronomers believe they have discovered the origin of our universe's first super-massive black holes, which formed some 13 billion years ago filling in a missing chapter of our universe's early history, and could help scientists better understand how gravity and...

  • Has a Mystery Energy Field Hidden Since the Big Bang Been Activated?

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:50:00
    Was a dormant energy field lurking since the big bang that is now active causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate? In the late 1990s, observations of supernovae revealed that the universe has started expanding faster and faster over...

  • Does the Coma Cluster Cloak an Ancient Universe?

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:48:00
    A surprisingly large collections of galaxies (red dots in center) stands out at a remarkably large distance in this composite image combining infrared and visible-light observations. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope contributed to the infrared component of the observations, while shorter-wavelength...

  • Image of the Day: Milky Way's Magellanic Stream -A Remnant of Massive Supernova Explosions

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:14:00
    This combined radio/optical image shows the Milky Way, Magellanic Clouds, and a new radio image of the Magellanic Stream. "The new age of the stream puts its beginning at about the time when the two Magellanic Clouds may have passed...

  • The Particle Physics Song

    Updated: 2010-08-26 15:41:54
    Members of the CERN choir sing an ode the Higgs boson to the tune of "The Hippopotamus Song" by Flanders and Swann.

  • SPIE Optical Metrology 2011

    Updated: 2010-08-26 00:00:00
    Conference: 22 May 2011 - 26 May 2011, Munich , Bavaria, Germany. Organized by SPIE.

  • Black holes and spin offs

    Updated: 2010-08-26 00:00:00
    Lecture/talk: 25 Nov 2010, London, United Kingdom.

  • 23rd Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics - Random Matrices, Statistical Physics and Information Theory

    Updated: 2010-08-26 00:00:00
    Conference: 26 Sep 2010 - 30 Sep 2010, Cracow, Poland. Organized by Jagiellonian University.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PhysicsWorld/~4/2FoGMEJKc1A" height="1" width="1"/

  • Math’s highest honor given for work in mathematical physics

    Updated: 2010-08-20 22:18:06
    It was a good week for mathematical physics. Three of the four winners of the 2010 Fields Medal, considered the Nobel Prize for mathematics, were honored for studies in the field.

  • Neutrinos and the evolution of young scientists

    Updated: 2010-08-19 11:44:33
    At the 38th annual SLAC Summer Institute, more than 150 graduate students, postdocs and researchers got an in-depth look at "Neutrinos: Nature's Mysterious Messengers" -- and built social bonds that will sustain them throughout their careers.

  • Nicola Cabibbo: 1935–2010

    Updated: 2010-08-18 18:55:16
    The Italian physicist Nicola Cabibbo, who many said should have shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2008 for his contribution to understanding the mechanism of quark mixing, died Monday at the age of 75.

  • Galactic Super-volcano in Action

    Updated: 2010-08-18 06:00:00
    This image shows the eruption of a galactic "super-volcano" in the massive galaxy M87.

  • Dark energy studies top astronomy and astrophysics priorities

    Updated: 2010-08-13 16:01:41
    High-energy physics interests are ranked highly in the decadal study of astronomy and astrophysics priorities released by a National Research Council committee today. The top-ranked projects include studies of dark energy and dark matter although a strong emphasis on extra-solar planet astronomy pushed some high-energy physics further down the list.

  • A Galactic Spectacle

    Updated: 2010-08-05 06:00:00
    A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories.

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

    Updated: 2010-08-03 18:47:27
    Link & Share The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

  • Black Hole Jerked Around Twice

    Updated: 2010-07-21 06:00:00
    This image shows the effects of a giant black hole that has been flipped around twice, causing its spin axis to point in a different direction from before.

  • Black Hole Blows Big Bubble

    Updated: 2010-07-07 06:00:00
    Combining observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole.

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