Tag: High Energy Astrophysics Division

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard researchers stop, restart, light

    Albert Einstein theorized that light cannot travel faster than 186,282 miles per second. But he never said it couldn’t go slower. Lene Hau, a physics professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, says Einstein would “probably be stunned” at the results of her recent experiments. Working in her laboratory at the…

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    Cosmic ‘superbubbles’ bespeak toil and trouble

    The merging Antennae Galaxies in constellation Corvus are producing massive bubbles of expanding X-ray-emitting gas at such astonishing rates that they are bumping into each other. Giuseppina Fabbiano, Andreas Zezas and Stephen Murray of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to capture in unprecedented detail this phenomenon. Fabbiano said that the…

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