For more than two decades, NC State researchers have studied the use of genetics to grow what they call “elite” Christmas trees. They are now about to harvest the first batch of seeds that growers can plant in their own fields. In partnership with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the North …
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Artist’s impression of a collection of black holes at the heart of a star cluster. Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann Since 2015, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has detected around 85 pairs of colliding black holes. We now know that Einstein was right: gravitational waves are generated by these systems as they wind around each other, warping spacetime …
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Artistic representation of Majorana edge modes on a string of superconducting qubits. Credit: Google Quantum AI Google Quantum AI physicists have used their quantum computer to study an efficient type of particle that is more resilient to environmental disturbances that can degrade quantum computations. These effective particles, known as Majorana edge modes, form as a …
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Overall, this imbalance between the number of small factories and their overall production is similar. Small generating stations represent about 91% of all hydroelectric installations, but account for only 11% of hydroelectric production. And yet they’ve seen a global boom in recent years – along with a growing body of evidence from around the world …
For something that emits no light that we can detect, black holes love to blanket themselves in radiation. In fact, some of the brightest light in the Universe comes from supermassive black holes. Well, not really black holes themselves; it is the material that surrounds them as they actively suck up large amounts of matter …
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For something that emits no light that we can detect, black holes love to blanket themselves in radiation. In fact, some of the brightest light in the Universe comes from supermassive black holes. Well, not really black holes themselves; it is the material that surrounds them as they actively suck up large amounts of matter …
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Enlarge / The jets of material ejected around black holes can be enormous. Active galactic nuclei, powered by the supermassive black holes they contain, are the brightest objects in the Universe. The light comes from jets of matter projected at a speed close to light by the environment around the black hole. In most cases, …
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Still image of a numerical simulation of a merger of unequal-mass binary black holes, with parameters consistent with GW190412. Credit: N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes project Ever since astronomers first detected ultra-high-energy neutrinos coming from random directions in space, they haven’t been able to figure …
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