What a month… from the sky to the labs. Dazzling stuff from asteroids, supergiant stars, the Higgs and other cool-sounding particles.
Tag: stars
A few kicked-out electrons, two shaken stars, a strange body and the power of shadow.
So many things happened during this bombshell month that I don’t know where to start. Black hole photos, fast radio bursts, antineutrinos, gravity, clocks, orbits…
Deep under the ground of Gran Sasso in Italy hides XENON1T, an assassin of dark matter hopes. The cold heart of this experiment hides two tons of liquid xenon, whose atoms get kicked out of position by passing dark matter particles, giving flashes of light in the process. Or at least that’s what physicists would hope.