Articles by: Diane Lincoln

The European Southern Observatory’s GRAVITY instrument revealed clumps of gas swirling around just outside the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Here, a visualization of that orbiting gas.

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is closer to Earth than we thought

By Diane Lincoln last updated 11 May 22

The supermassive black hole hiding in the center of our galaxy is much closer to Earth, about 2,000 light-years closer, than scientists thought.

Abstract image of quantum tunneling or space-time wormholes.

Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers. Here's what they found.

By Diane Lincoln published 10 August 20

A team of physicists has devised a simple way to measure the duration of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum tunneling.

A snippet of the new solar time-lapse video

Rare ghostly particles produced inside the sun just detected under a mountain in Italy

By Diane Lincoln last updated 27 July 20

For the first time ever, physicists have spotted rare, ghostly particles, called CNO solar neutrinos, produced by a weird kind of fusion inside the sun.

Rare quadruplet 'top quarks' created at world's largest atom smasher

By Diane Lincoln last updated 1 November 22

The world's largest atom smasher has "given birth" to a set of four ultraheavy particles — called top quarks.

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