We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift Observatory and other telescopes. A kilonova is a "the afterglow ...

Abstract: A dense plasma focus (DPF) is a co-axial plasma railgun, whose discharge ends in a z-pinch phase. The MegaJOuLe neutron imaging radiography (MJOLNIR) DPF is a Lawrence Livermore National ...

Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...

Relativistic electron-positron plasmas are ubiquitous in extreme astrophysical environments such as black-hole and neutron-star magnetospheres, where accretion-powered jets and pulsar winds are ...

Astronomers have just detected the brightest cosmic flash ever recorded—an ultra-powerful radio burst from deep space that’s ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic and luminous explosions in the universe. However, they are fleeting and often ...

Wei Jia Ong, a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been recognized as the recipient of the American Physical ...

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