New research challenges what we thought we knew about what happens around black holes. We're used to thinking of black holes as the ultimate vacuums, capable of sucking in everything around them and ...

To find evidence of superradiance in nuclei, nuclear physicists look for two systems that have the same internal structure but different decay channels. Mirror nuclei have the same total number of ...

The “Golden Age” of Black Hole Physics It’s generally agreed that the so-called “Golden Age” of black hole theoretical ...

The effect has been predicted theoretically decades ago - but it is very hard to provide experimental evidence for it: "Superradiance" is the phenomenon of one atom giving off energy in the form of ...

Scientists have succeeded in verifying a basic prediction of the quantum-mechanical behavior of resonant systems. They were able to carefully follow, one x-ray at a time, the decay of nuclei in a ...

Quantum mechanics controls reality on the smallest levels, but when scaled up, it’s often difficult to gauge how and why this realm matters in the practical world. That said, physicists will on ...

A collaboration of scientists from five of the world's most advanced x-ray sources in Europe, Japan and the US, has succeeded in verifying a basic prediction of the quantum-mechanical behavior of ...

An atom gives off energy and causes many other atoms in its vicinity to emit light as well. This phenomenon is called 'superradiance'. For the first time, this phenomenon has now bean measured in a ...