Physics
Chandra Captures Enticing Evidence Of Black Hole’s Bondi Radius
[/caption] Those who are interested in black holes are familiar with the event horizon, but the Chandra X-Ray Observatory is…
Is This a Scene from Star Wars or a Real Image from the ISS?
[/caption] What an amazing image! The ATV-2 Johannes Kepler looks like an X-Wing fighter from Star Wars as it departed…
No Joy for Dark Matter Detector’s First 100 Days
[/caption] We’re still mostly in the dark about Dark Matter, and the highly anticipated results from the XENON100 detector has…
A New Way to Visualize Warped Space and Time
[/caption] Trying to understand the warping of space and time is something like visualizing a scene from Alice in Wonderland…
Particle Physicists See Something Little That Could be Really Big
[/caption] Physicists from Fermilab have seen a “bump” in their data that could indicate a brand new particle unlike any…
The Moon Helps Radio Astronomers Search for Neutrinos
[/caption] From an NRAO press release: Seeking to detect mysterious, ultra-high-energy neutrinos from distant regions of space, a team of…
Penrose: WMAP Shows Evidence of ‘Activity’ Before Big Bang
[/caption] Have scientists seen evidence of time before the Big Bang, and perhaps a verification of the idea of the…
Hawking(ish) Radiation Observed
In 1974, Steven Hawking proposed a seemingly ridiculous hypothesis. Black holes, the gravitational monsters from which nothing escapes, evaporate. To…
What Is Mechanical Energy
[/caption] The straight forward answer to 'what is mechanical energy' is that it is the sum of energy in a…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Is An Anomalous Anomaly A Normality?
The lack of any flyby anomaly effect when the Rosetta spacecraft passed Earth in November 2009 is what, an anomaly?…