Boffins: Antimatter comes from black holes, neutron stars
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'No one could have expected so much unexpectedness' Topflight astrophysics boffins believe they may have cracked the tricky problem of how to make antimatter, which would be useful for many purposes: for instance powering relatively practical starships, or - of course - blowing up an entire planet in one go. However, it appears that making antimatter requires the possession of a black hole or a neutron star, so it won't be happening any time soon.â¦
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The most boffin-heavy birthday bash, ever
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Black holes may actually drag the fabric of space and time around them as they spin, creating waves for cosmic material to surf on, astronomers said on Monday.
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The earliest stars may hold clues to the nature of the Universe's mysterious dark matter, simulations suggest.
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An eruption of high-energy radiation recently signaled a tantrum unleashed by a black hole, astronomers announced today.
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Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for finding the background radiation that finally nailed down the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
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A recent article in New Scientist magazine, entitled â Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away,â implies that the UC Berkeley SETI@home project has uncovered a very convincing candidate
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An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays.
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Astronomers have found the biggest stellar black hole so far, a monster with a mass 15.65 times that of our Sun, lurking in a nearby spiral-shaped galaxy.
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Factor 15 protection Two team of boffins have independently set up quantum computers running proof of concept versions of an algorithm for factorisation.â¦
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An international team of astronomers believe they have solved a mystery that has been perplexing scientists for 100 years -- the origin of cosmic rays.
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The mystery of how the darkest galaxies in the Universe came to exist may be solved.
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How many live at home, are practising Jedis, etc Russian astronomers have begun work that will allow them to work out how many black holes there are in the Universe.â¦
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Could face stiff opposition from granola tendency One of America'a top nukes-in-space boffins says it's time to consider nuclear-powered rockets again. He reckons atomic boosters could cut the cost of NASA's upcoming Moonbase plan.â¦
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Results from experiments at CERN and the Jyvaskyla Accelerator Laboratory in Finland, reported in Nature today, cast new light on the primary reaction that creates carbon in stars.
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A couple of UC Riverside physicists stabilize antimatter for a record-breaking 100 nanoseconds, and the result is an ultrapowerful laser.