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NASA's Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster's Missing Black Holes
Hubble and Webb archival data reveal the first stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, in a record 94-year binary orbit, hinting at thousands more hidden black holes.
Read full story →Faintest planet ever imaged from Earth found after more than 10 years of hide-and-seek
A third planet, Beta Pictoris d, was directly imaged with ESO's VLT after hiding in a decade of archival data; it is among the lightest planets ever imaged from the ground.
Read full story →Astronomers just found four hidden white dwarf stars near Earth
Hubble ultraviolet observations confirm four white dwarfs hidden behind red dwarf companions within 65 light-years, including the ninth-closest white dwarf to the Sun.
Read full story →Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow
A new computing paradigm harnesses thermal noise and energy dissipation for calculations instead of suppressing it, promising far lower power use than conventional chips.
Read full story →Sun-like star caught after eating one of its own planets
Astronomers found unusually high lithium levels in sun-like star TOI-5882, a chemical fingerprint indicating it swallowed one of its own planets.
Read full story →Physicists confirm 20-year-old theory that could boost quantum technology
ISTA physicists realized a fully autonomous distributed-entanglement method using a quantum bath of correlated photons, confirming a 20-year-old theoretical prediction.
Read full story →A Superconductor's Hidden Identity Revealed
Hebrew University researchers found atomically thin NbSe2 and TaS2 host two strongly coupled superconducting orders instead of one, resolving a long-standing puzzle.
Read full story →Earth's Largest Particle Accelerator Reveals New Clues about the Early Universe
LHC scientists measured the quark-gluon plasma's diffusion wake for the first time, offering a precise new look at conditions moments after the Big Bang.
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