Jets emerge from the vicinity of a black hole or neutron star, which orbits a massive regular star in the LS 5039 system. Some of the gamma rays produced in the system are transformed into particles of matter and antimatter through collisions with ultraviolet photons (Illustration: HESS Collaboration/R Hynes)
Antimatter Lightning! We're going to do our best, but nothing we could possibly write will be as awesome as the fact that's real and on Earth.
1. Axis of Evil: Radiation left from the big bang is still glowing in the sky – in a mysterious and controversial pattern. 2. Dark Flow: Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed.
For just less than a decade, NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts was the staid space agency's big-vision mashup of Willy Wonka's factory, DARPA and your crazy uncle's garage workshop. And now experts want to bring it back.
My wife and I just saw Angels and Demons last night. While the movie was entertaining, some of the technical aspects were a little off -- especially about anti-matter.
Patterns of a type of high-energy radiation called gamma rays throughout the Milky Way aren't the signature of mysterious dark matter as had previously been suggested, a new study shows.
Dec. 1, 2008 -- Blasting a gold target with high-powered lasers creates huge amounts of antimatter, reported scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at a conference last week.
On June 30, 1908, the Earth experienced an explosion 1,000 times the magnitude of the the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan (shown above).
Beams of antimatter fired into an aluminium tube have revealed that antimatter bounces much more than we thought, with implications for our understanding of the balance of matter and antimatter in the universe.
As a weak atheist one that can not just state that God or Gods can not exist because science disproves what the theists are stating. I see big flaws in all the religious text that I have read over the many years I started a hunt for God and proof of a Gods existence.
New breed of laser coming due to use of antimatter molecule
Physicists want to study antimatter much more closely and confirm beyond all doubt that it really is the exact opposite of the matter we observe in everyday existence, but there is a problem.
Scientists have detected a stellar explosion that is the brightest and most energetic ever recorded, and which could be the first evidence of a new type of supernova fueled by an antimatter engine.
A star that survived a massive explosion – only to be destroyed in a second blast just two years later – has piqued the curiosity of astronomers. Its bizarre death might be due to the production of antimatter in its core towards the end of its life.
Scientists for the first time have seen a specific particle of matter spontaneously turn into its antimatter twin--a discovery that might require some rewriting of the fundamental theory that governs nature at the subatomic level.
The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source -- antimatter, the eerie "mirror" of ordinary matter -- in future weapons.
"Mixing antimatter and matter usually has predictably violent consequences – the two annihilate one another in a fierce burst of energy."
The Book of Ratings rates danger symbols (via Ian Albert). Very enjoyable, and brings up the question of how to mark new threats. All the truly cool transhuman technologies are going to require warning signs.
SLAC's BaBar collaboration has discovered that CP violation—an asymmetry between the behavior of matter and antimatter—exists even in a very rare class of particle decays.
Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (September 25, 2006) that they have met the exacting standard to claim discovery of astonishingly rapid transitions between matter and antimatter: 3 trillion o …
Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.
What is the strangest thing in space? In our Solar System? From black holes to exoplanets, now you can decide which is most bizarre things in our universe.
The first satellite built to detect antimatter in space launched safely yesterday, boosting the chances of identifying the mysterious 'dark matter' that makes up more than 80% of the stuff in the Universe.