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The 'demon particle': Have scientists discovered the impossible? - study

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Prof. Khachatur Manukyan and his team employed cutting-edge spectroscopic and imaging instruments to get a closer look than ever at the inks, paper and fibers that made Benjamin Franklin’s bills distinctive and hard to replicate.

US researchers decipher secrets behind Benjamin Franklin’s paper money

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

An artist’s composition of the Milky Way seen through a neutrino lens (blue).

For first time, scientists use neutrinos to create 'ghostly' map of Milky Way

Artist's impression of the surroundings of a supermassive black hole (Illustrative).

Israeli astrophysicists may have solved the mystery of early massive galaxies

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

This photo of Jupiter, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope on June 27, 2019, features the Great Red Spot, a storm the size of Earth that has been raging for hundreds of years.

How does Jupiter appear in different colors?

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This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked.

Scientists discover that galactic collisions cause quasars - study

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One of the Unit Telescopes of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) is producing artificial stars in the skies above the Atacama Desert, above the Milky Way.

Detailed dark matter map provides further support for Einstein's theory of general relativity

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Swift X-ray observations of galaxy NGC 5408 indicate its ultraluminous X-ray source undergoes periodic changes every 115.5 days. This cycle, astronomers suspect, is linked to the orbit of a donor star around a middleweight black hole, as shown in this artist's view.

What are mysterious cosmic objects shining brighter than the sun?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Satellite view of Israel and the Middle East

How did Earth get its water? Exoplanet research raises new theories

By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

A wormhole (illustrative).

Astrophysicist claims to be close to building a time machine

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Radio frequency anechoic chamber, Antennas Research Group, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. The interior surfaces are covered with pyramidal Radiation Absorbent Material (RAM) which are made of rubberized foam impregnated with mixtures of carbon and iron.

The quietest place on earth will drive you insane

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An example of a pulsar, a neutron star emitting beams of electromagnetic radiation (Illustrative).

Israeli scientists shed light on mysterious matter jets in space - study

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

A laser is sent down a UMD hallway in an experiment to corral light as it makes a 45-meter journey.

Laser experiment breaks record crossing University of Maryland hallway

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Artist's impression of neutron stars merging, producing gravitational waves and resulting in a kilonova

The collision of stars rockets scientists' understanding of physics

A general view of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment is seen during a media visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Saint-Genis-Pouilly near Geneva in Switzerland, July 23, 2014

New CERN data dismisses apparent anomaly in Standard Model of Physics

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Dark matter and gas (Illustrative).

'Dark photons' may be what makes up dark matter - study

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The collision of two black holes - a tremendously powerful event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO - is seen in this still image from a computer simulation released in Washington February 11, 2016

Schrodinger's black hole? Bizarre quantum properties of stellar bodies revealed

Front view of the IceCube Lab at twilight, with a starry sky showing a glimpse of the Milky Way overhead and sunlight lingering on the horizon

Neutrinos traced back to a specific galaxy for first time

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF