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Image of lenticular galaxy NGC 1277 taken with Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA/ESA/Andrew C. Fabian) It’s thought that at the heart of most if not every spiral galaxy (as well as some dwarf galaxies) there’s a supermassive black hole, by definition containing enormous amounts of mass — hundreds of millions, even billions of times the mass [...]
Physicist Sam Hewamanage woke up, got ready and made his usual 15-minute drive to work. He parked his car, walked inside and sat at his workstation before digging into his primary task for the day: monitoring a particle detector located 100 meters underground on the border of Switzerland and France.
Hewamanage (pictured below) doesn’t live in Europe. He lives in Batavia, Ill., just outside of Chicago. But he can work on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider as if he were on the CERN campus, thanks to the Remote Operations Center at Fermilab.
On Friday night, Nov. 16, about 1000 people came out to Fermilab to see five physicists duke it out... with science.
The occasion was the laboratory's first ever physics slam. A physics slam is kind of like a poetry slam—the five contestants were given 12 minutes each to explain a complex particle physics concept to an auditorium filled with laymen. And they had to do it in the most entertaining way they could, because audience applause determined the winner.
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Time ceaselessly speeds onward in our everyday experience, never taking so much as half a step backward. Now, thanks to experimental results from the BaBar collaboration, researchers can be sure that the same is also true for single, isolated particles. Time is indeed asymmetric, even on exceedingly small scales.
ATLAS Control Room, Meyrin, Switzerland
11:30 p.m., Nov. 4
It is half an hour into the night shift at the control room for the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS detector, and there is nothing to do. The LHC is not running.
“We can’t do anything. We just have to wait,” says shift supervisor Adrian Vogel.
Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider confirmed this week the existence of a particle-like structure first observed at the LHC’s predecessor, the Tevatron.
Members of the CMS collaboration announced on Nov. 14 that they had spotted a curious object, dubbed Y(4140), that the CDF experiment had detected in March 2009.
“We don’t know what it is,” says Vincenzo Chiochia, co-convener of the B physics group for CMS. “We observe a structure consistent with previous observations from the Tevatron.”
The universe is expanding, with every galaxy speeding away from all others at an ever-increasing rate. But it hasn’t always been that way. Eleven billion years ago, the speed of that expansion was beginning to slow as gravity pulled galaxies in toward one another. That was before dark energy came into play.
<div class="field-item even"CMS physicists observed an unusual trend in the data they collected in September when they collided protons with lead ions instead of other protons.
Particles produced in collisions tend to travel in opposite directions, but in one in roughly every 2 million collisions, the physicists saw particles travel in a common direction. Seemingly unrelated particles located apart from one another in the detector also had a tendency to travel in a common direction.
More than 300 scientists who study the sky in the high-powered light of gamma rays came together last week for five days of presentations, meetings and the chance to compare notes at the Fourth International Fermi Symposium. Acronyms flew thick and fast: SNR (supernova remnant), TGF (terrestrial gamma-ray flashes) and AGN (active galactic nucleus) were only a few of the TLAs (three-letter acronyms) to be heard.
: skip to main skip to sidebar Monday , November 05, 2012 Nature and the ArXiv Revisited Almost one year ago , several physicists from Imperial College London and the University of London released one of the most highly-praised papers on the foundations of quantum mechanics in recent years . Essentially , the researchers had provided strong evidence that the quantum state is , in fact , real . Furthermore , this suggested that the quantum state is not merely a reflection of an observer's knowledge of a system , as some physicists and philosophers have . argued Image courtesy Cornell University Library Arxiv.org Terry Rudolph , one of the authors of the paper , decided to submit his paper to perhaps the most prominent interdisciplinary scientific journal : Nature Additionally , he posted