Physics

Deep learning identifies head-on collisions in LHC data

Physics World: Deep learning could hold the key to making sense of proton collisions generated in the world’s premier particle accelerator. That is the message from physicists in Europe and the US who have shown how an algorithm developed for language…

Astronomers Reimagine the Making of the Planets

Quanta Magazine: Start at the center, with the sun. Our middle-aged star may be more placid than most, but it is otherwise unremarkable. Its planets, however, are another story. First, Mercury: More charred innards than fully fledged planet, it probably lost…

Gravitational Waves Continue to Astound

Nautilus: When Galileo Galilei first pointed a small telescope at the heavens in 1609, he began a revolution in astronomy. Today huge telescopes and radio dishes tell us about the universe. But they cannot directly probe those invisible sharply curved…

NASA Hubble Finds First Free-Floating Black Hole

Forbes: For the first time ever, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble telescope has reported the observation of a free-floating black hole wholly independent of a stellar mass companion. Heretofore, black holes have only been identified as supermassive objects at the centers…