We all see mesmerizing views when flying, but some are more exceptional than others. A pilot flying over the Atlantic noticed one of these, according to a post shared on Reddit. The caption says, " Mysterious red glow seen over the Atlantic, p…
Using recently developed technology known as a streak camera, MIT engineers were able to visualize the propagation of light in super slow motion. Video at the Bottom. The camera is extraordinarily unique in that it can only capture thin streaks …
For the first time, astrophysicists have succeeded in seeing reflected light from behind a black hole. This experiment confirms Einstein's theory. Updated version of the previous article. Surely the only thing you've heard so far is that…
The Slow Mo Guys are known for their slow-motion videos, but this time they went to Caltech to utilize the world’s fastest camera. What exactly did they want to shoot? 10 trillion frames per second is the speed of light. To put things in perspec…
The UPV/EHU's 'Ikerbasque' team, led by Professor Enrique Solano, has achieved, in theoretical-experimental collaboration between groups from Spain and Germany, the " greatest " coupling between light and matter on a quantum s…
The speed of light in a vacuum, denoted by c is a universal constant. But, it is not necessary that photons (particles of light) travel with this speed everywhere. What does a photon and a pirate have in common? Both of them travel at “c”! “C” bein…
A cloud of ultracold atoms is like a motel with a neon “ no vacancy ” sign. If a guest at the motel wants to switch rooms, they’re out of luck. No vacant rooms means there’s no choice but to stay put. Likewise, in new experiments, atoms boxed in by…
Research predicts the existence of a previously-unimaginable particle. When Italian physicist Ettore Majorana suggested that electrons could be split into halves nearly a century ago, the revolutionary idea was largely underappreciated. It now serv…
Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split photons may also exist, according to a study from Dartmouth and SUNY Polytech…
Researchers have found a way to trap a single photon in a cavity to aid in further research involving new quantum technologies, publishing their findings in Science Advances. Previously, trapping photons in a cavity has involved using materials …
Flares of light that may have been created by two black holes colliding have been seen for the first time, astronomers say. Experts say the findings potentially create a new chapter within astrophysics because the merger of black holes was not expe…
For those of us who have done a bit of homework on space, and have a basic understanding of the properties of light and gravity, we may feel like have a lot of the answers. These two things have a huge impact on the known universe, as well as our c…
An international team of researchers have discovered a new property of light called " self-torque ". First, let's take a step back. Over the last few decades, physicists have discovered that it is possible to twist the wavefront of…
New research by a team from the City College of New York has discovered a novel way of combining two different states of matter. For the first time, topological photons - light - have been combined with lattice vibrations, also known as phonons, to…
Researchers have created a new camera that is capable of capturing a trillion-frames-per-second. Can capture the light movement. Cameras are very complex pieces of technology, especially when you are talking about the ones on the higher-end or t…
Back in 2018, a team of astronomers and astrophysicists measured all of the light in the history of the observable universe. Marco Ajello, an astrophysicist at Clemson University, led the team that used NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope…
In the depths of space, there are celestial bodies where extreme conditions prevail: Rapidly rotating neutron stars generate super-strong magnetic fields. And black holes, with their enormous gravitational pull, can cause huge, energetic jets of ma…
