What We're Reading

Many galaxies host an active galactic nucleus — a luminous disk of gas and dust circling a central supermassive black hole. Extreme though this environment may be, stars can live within these disks, and new research led by the Flatiron Institute's Adam Jermyn examines how these stars might affect the evolution of the disk that surrounds them.

Converting DNA sequences and particle vibrations into notes allows researchers to recognize unseen patterns and create songs for outreach.

The behemoth, Sagittarius A*, appears as a faint shadow surrounded by glowing material.

Two independent teams show that neutral ytterbium-171 atoms can be trapped and used for quantum information processing, bringing quantum computers based on this platform a step closer to reality.

Long-awaited boosts to the world’s most powerful collider could spur breakthroughs in the hunt for physics beyond the Standard Model.

Advance has implications for drug development and biological research.

Scientists recently observed two black holes that united into one, and in the process got a “kick” that flung the newly formed black hole away at high speed.

Experiments indicate that superionic ice can exist in two stable crystal structures.

Astronomers have discovered a new kind of stellar explosion that occurs on the surface of small, dense stars known as white dwarfs.

A new measurement of the mass of an elementary particle, the W boson, has defied expectations. The result hints at a possible flaw in physicists’ otherwise stalwart theory of the fundamental bits and bobs of our world, known as the standard model.