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Galactic beacons not formed by intergalactic crashes
What triggers the huge emission of light from supermassive black holes in distant galaxies? A long-held idea is that these so-called active galactic nuclei are the result of collisions between galaxies in the early universe. Now new evidence suggests that galactic mergers can’t be responsible. Instead, say astronomers, these galactic beacons must owe their brilliance […]
New Planets Feature Young Star and Twin Neptunes
July 14, 2011
An international team, including Oxford University scientists, has discovered 10 new planets. Amongst them is one orbiting a star perhaps only a few tens of million years old, twin Neptune-sized planets, and a rare Saturn-like world. The planets were detected using the CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Transits) space telescope, operated by the French space agency […]
Another Bastardization of Quantum Mechanics
July 14, 2011
I hoping that I would stop finding things like this, but I think that is asking way too much. This “author” seems to think that quantum physics can explain god. Go figure! There are several puzzling stuff that he wrote in that article, but I’m going to focus on just a couple: Energy makes up […]
NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid’s Orbit on July 15
July 14, 2011
On July 15, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. The main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study Vesta for one year, and observations will help scientists understand the earliest chapter […]
Astronauts set up first robot petrol pump that will one day let craft ‘fill up’ in space
July 14, 2011
Development will do for space what mid-air refuelling did for aircraft Work was done on final spacewalk of the Space Shuttle programme Scientists have begun testing a robot petrol pump attendant and handyman that has been installed on the International Space Station. Canadian researchers working with Nasa have fitted a satellite mock-up to the station’s […]
Light Traveled Faster in the Early Universe
July 14, 2011
A brilliant physicist João Magueijo asks the heretical question: What if the speed of light—now accepted as one of the unchanging foundations of modern physics—were not constant?“A number of surprising observations made at the threshold of the 21st century have left cosmologists confused and other physicists in doubt over the reliability of cosmology,” Magueijo says. […]
New CMS Constraints On SUSY
July 14, 2011
While other sources (voluntarily not linked here, to avoid pissing off my collaborators) choose to be “on the news” these days, with a brand new exclusion plot of the Higgs boson obtained using almost one full inverse femtobarn of collisions which is not yet public but was made accessible by mistake on a Fermilab site, […]
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