In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have recreated "cosmic fireballs" here on Earth in a particle accelerator.The ...

In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen's accidental discovery of X-rays marked the moment science learned to look beyond surfaces, fusing ...

On 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, while experimenting with cathode rays in his lab, stumbled upon X-rays, a ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed ...

Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

Cutting-edge computer simulations combined with theoretical calculations are helping astronomers better understand the origin of some of the universe's most energetic and mysterious light shows -- ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun. And when these “supermassive” black holes start to ...

Scientists have created a new class of laser beam that appears to violate long-held laws of light physics. These new beams, which the team calls “spacetime wave packets,” follow different rules of ...

Twisted photonics: A bilayer of molybdenum trioxide supports highly unusual light propagation along straight paths when the two layers are rotated with respect to each other at the photonic magic ...