Read article 'Studying neutron stars in the laboratory'
The ALICE collaboration is now using the scattering between particles produced in collisions at the LHC to constrain interaction potentials in a new way.
Read article 'Multi-messenger adventures'
"This book offers a well-balanced introduction to particle and astroparticle physics, requiring only a basic background of classical and quantum physics."
Read article 'DESY’s astroparticle aspirations'
Christian Stegmann, director of DESY’s newly established research division for astroparticle physics, describes the ambitious plans ahead in this vibrant field.
Read article 'First images of the centre of a galaxy'
On 10 April, researchers working on the Event Horizon Telescope released the first direct image of a black hole.
Read article 'Mysterious burst confounds astrophysicists'
Hypotheses are that the Cow was either a compact object being destroyed when coming too close to a black hole, or a special type of supernova in which a black hole or magnetar is produced.
Read article 'Colliders join the hunt for dark energy'
The ATLAS collaboration carried out a first collider search for light scalar particles that could contribute to the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Read article 'Solving the next mystery in astrophysics'
Until recently the number of theories on the origin of fast radio bursts outnumbered the number of observations.
Read article 'Gaia finds evidence of old Milky Way merger'
Many of the stars appearing in the night sky did not originate from within our galaxy.
Read article 'Particle physics meets astrophysics and gravity'
The 7th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2018) took place on 4–12 July in Kolymbari, Crete.
Read article 'Gravitational hunt for extra dimensions'
If extra dimensions are large, part of the gravitational field would “leak” into the extra dimensions and gravitational waves would be weaker than expected.
