Tag: birth

U.S. Hatches Plan To Build a Quantum Internet That Might Be ‘Unhackable’

U.S. officials and scientists unveiled a plan this week to pursue what they called one of the most important technological frontiers of the 21st century: building a quantum Internet. From a report: Speaking in Chicago, one of the main hubs of the work, they set goals for forging what they called a second Internet — one that would function alongside the…

New view of old light adds twist to debate over universe’s age

Observations of the cosmic microwave background by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile suggest that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/new-view-old-light-twist-debate-universes-age…

Elements from the universe’s earliest stars gave birth to our sun

It is easy to regard the sun as humdrum, yet it contains elements blasted from the universe’s first stars as they died and is halfway through its 9-billion-year lifespan Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732910-700-elements-from-the-universes-earliest-stars-gave-birth-to-our-sun/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Breakthrough in deciphering birth of supermassive black holes

A research team led by Cardiff University scientists say they are closer to understanding how a supermassive black hole (SMBH) is born thanks to a new technique that has enabled them to zoom in on one of these enigmatic cosmic objects in unprecedented detail. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-breakthrough-deciphering-birth-supermassive-black.html…

Asteroid Day, June 30, live from Luxembourg

The 6th annual Asteroid Day will be held as a digital event on June 30, 2020. It’ll feature presentations with experts, panel discussions, and question-and-answer periods. Here’s how to participate. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/international-asteroid-day-june-30…

A monster quasar in the early universe

Astronomers just announced the most massive quasar yet known in the early universe. Its monster central black hole has a mass equivalent to 1.5 billion of our suns. The object has been given a Hawaiian name, Poniua’ena. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/poniuaena-monster-quasar-in-early-universe…

Young moon after sunset June 22, 23 and 24

These next several days – June 22, 23 and 24, 2020 – watch for the young waxing crescent moon to adorn the western evening dusk. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/young-moon-after-sunset-june-22-23-and-24…

London’s ‘oldest theater,’ built just 3 years after Shakespeare’s birth, discovered

The remains of what may be the oldest theater in London — constructed three years after Shakespeare’s birth — have been unearthed ahead of a new housing development in the East End of the modern city. Source: https://www.livescience.com/oldest-elizabethan-theater-london.html