Recent scientific updates detail black hole energy jets, the detection of an exomoon, a potential record-breaking 2026 El Niño, and France's first recorded fire cloud.
JWST observations reveal perplexing "little red dots," impossibly large black holes, and unexpectedly bright galaxies in the early universe, challenging existing astrophysics. Scientists are developing new theories, including black hole stars and super-Eddington accretion, to explain these cosmic enigmas.
Researchers at CUNY ASRC have successfully recreated the energy extraction process of black holes in a laboratory using a stationary device. This breakthrough, based on a theory by Sir Roger Penrose, uses artificial rotation to amplify electromagnetic waves, with potential applications in communication, optics, and quantum computing.
The Large Hadron Collider, buried beneath the French-Swiss border, has been switched off until 2030 for its largest-ever upgrade, Long Shutdown 3. CERN aims to transform it into the High-Luminosity LHC, increasing collision rates tenfold to enable sharper measurements and new discoveries, with a gradual restart from 2028.
A Chinese survey shows over 96% awareness and 54% usage of AI, with 40% using it in daily life, work, or study. In contrast, US Gen Z workers express concerns about AI threatening jobs and devaluing degrees.
Researchers have derived a mathematical formula explaining how spacetime crystals can form black holes without a collapsing star. This breakthrough, achieved by analyzing physics in infinite dimensions, sheds light on critical collapse and could aid the search for primordial black holes as dark matter candidates.
Dai Liang, a cosmology and astrophysics specialist who received a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship, has returned to China to take a professorship at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Cosmic voids, once thought empty, may hold secrets to the universe's mysteries, while other space-related discoveries and tech advancements are being made
Scientists have discovered a way to "hear" the collision of black holes and other cosmic events using a process similar to that used in music production.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered supermassive black holes that formed within the first billion years of the universe, challenging existing theories. Researchers now propose that decaying dark matter particles with masses between 24-27 electronvolts may have released enough energy to prevent gas cloud fragmentation, causing direct collapse into massive black holes instead of star formation.
Astronomers using 18 years of radio-telescope data from Oxford University have measured the power of jets from Cygnus X-1, the first confirmed black hole. The jets produce energy equivalent to 10,000 Suns and travel at half the speed of light, with their shape distorted by winds from the companion star. The research published in Nature Astronomy confirms theoretical models about how black holes channel energy to influence galaxy formation throughout the universe.
