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 PROF. MUHAMMAD Y. BASHOUTI: On the cutting edge at BGU.

The alchemist of innovation: Prof. Muhammad Y. Bashouti’s pioneering research at BGU

By Ronnie Rosenman
 Joel Bar-El, Chairman & Co-Founder, Trax Retail and Tamar Uriel-Beeri, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post

WATCH: 'They teach you to think outside the box'

 An artistic illustration of a black hole in space.

Supernovae give rise to black holes or neutron stars, finds Israeli-led team

 This artist’s impression shows a distant gas cloud that contains different chemical elements, illustrated here with schematic representations of various atoms.

New findings about the early universe - 50 million years after the Big Bang

 Atom (illustrative)

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

 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

 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

 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?

 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

 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

 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?

Satellite view of Israel and the Middle East

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

 A wormhole (illustrative).

Astrophysicist claims to be close to building a time machine

By Walla!
 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

By WALLA! HEALTH
 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

 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

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

The collision of stars rockets scientists' understanding of physics