IceCube, the kilometer-wide neutrino detector nestled deep beneath the South Pole, has traced a neutrino back to its far-flung birthplace: a supermassive black hole tearing a star to pieces in a galaxy 750 million light-years away.
What We're Reading
Feb
22
2021
Rare Cosmic Neutrino Traced to Star-Swallowing Black Hole, Science
Feb
18
2021
This Is the First Image Taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover. Now the Hunt for Life Begins, MIT Technology Review
After surviving the descent, the rover sent back this picture from the Martian surface.
A Famous Black Hole Gets a Massive Update, The New York Times
Cygnus X-1, one of the first identified black holes, is much weightier than expected, raising new questions about how such objects form.
Feb
17
2021
Thunderstorms Spew Out Gamma Rays — These Scientists Want to Know Why, Nature
Researchers in Japan are enlisting an army of citizens to explore how storms on Earth create extreme bursts of radiation.
Quantum Network Is Step Towards Ultrasecure Internet, Nature
Experiment connects three devices with entangled photons, demonstrating a key technique that could enable a future quantum internet.
Jan
14
2021
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