18 January 2017
The unusual tails of a pulsar give a clue as to what type of pulse it generates
...two pulsars known as Geminga and B0355+54 have helped to shed light on the distinctive emission signatures of these objects. By using ...that the particles are accelerated to nearly the speed of light through a process called Fermi acceleration that ...
28 February 2020
Record-breaking black hole eruption detected by astronomers
...collection of thousands of individual galaxies stationed some 390 million light-years from Earth. The outburst is thought to result... radio emission from electrons accelerated to almost the speed of light. When placed together, the two pieces of ...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
...a type of non-thermal radiation generated by charged particles spiralling around magnetic field lines at close to the speed of light. An advantage of the synchrotron radio signals is that the emission is long-lasting, hence follow-up observations can...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
...not announced any concrete measures to mitigate the light pollution that its satellites will cause. Unregulated ... globe’s financial information. This is because the effective speed of light through fibre-optic glass is only about two thirds ...
12 February 2016
A scientific breakthrough as gravitational waves detected for the first time
...distorted space would radiate outwards from the source at the speed of light through the Universe. However he also calculated that these ... researchers at Ligo. “We have observed the universe through light so far. But we can only see part of what...
13 April 2016
The mystery of neutrino mass to be solved by a calcium isotope
... electric charge. Unlike photons or charged particles, neutrinos can travel across the universe (at essentially the speed of light) without interference as they are not absorbed by intervening matter or deflected by interstellar magnetic fields. This...
