30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... can be overcome and while the gas collapses, Lyman-alpha photons (light emitted from one-electron ions – generally hydrogen atoms)...of the medium. The time required for the Lyman-alpha photons to escape the medium becomes larger than the free fall ...
16 September 2016
China launches its second space lab 'Tiangong 2' into orbit
...international mission is dedicated to measuring the polarity of photons from gamma ray bursts (GRBs) to try and... ascertain how these bursts produce such high-energy photons in the first place. “By itself, Tiangong 2 is not a monumental...
02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
...hydrogen atoms. These atoms also began to absorb surrounding CMB photons causing a small dip in its intensity, a feature that...that background radiation levels were significantly hotter than the photons of the CMB. One striking possibility is that dark...
20 March 2020
Missing particle a major blow for "Theory of Everything"
...-low-mass particles is that they can convert into a photon (packets of light) when they pass through a magnetic field. The... reverse might also be true in that photons may also be converted into axions under certain conditions. How ...
10 August 2021
NASA-funded commercial Moon mission to launch from New Zealand
... on an Electron rocket and deploying from Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform, CAPSTONE is a 25 kilogram (55-pound satellite... mission is the first time Rocket Lab will use its Photon spacecraft platform as a trans-lunar injection stage to place ...
03 November 2021
Astronomers spot the most distant detection of water in a star-forming galaxy
... is what is fuelling the frenzied star formation. In turn, UV photons emitted from the stars is being absorbed by the whopping amounts of ...in the galaxy and re-emits it as far-infrared photons, Jarugula says. “This further excites the water molecules,...
