Schematics of the all-optical nonlinear Compton scattering experiment showing laser-driven electron acceleration, electron-laser collision, and Compton scattering to produce gamma rays. In a ...
GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma "fireballs" using the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN, Geneva, to study ...
High-energy neutrinos are unique messengers of some of the most extreme processes occurring throughout the universe. Unlike high-energy photons, high-energy neutrinos are not absorbed as they traverse ...
For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a mysterious glow of gamma rays emanating from near the center of the Milky Way. Two theories have emerged: either the light was the result of dark matter ...
It’s said that lightning never strikes the same place twice and a watched pot never boils. “How lightning gets started inside thunderstorms is a big mystery,” says Joseph Dwyer, a physicist at the ...