Scientists have discovered that molecules scramble quantum information at rates comparable to black holes, affecting chemical reactions and offering insights for controlling quantum computing systems. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Research from Rice University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has shown that molecules can scramble quantum information as effectively as black holes, with implications for chemical physics …
This image shows the aftermath of the accretion of a star by a supermassive black hole. Black holes … [+] such as these lurk at the centres of many, if not all, galaxies, and can weight in at anything from a few tens of thousands to several billion times the mass of a single star. …
A new perspective on the Crab Nebula, one of astronomy’s most beautiful creations, has been provided by a NASA X-ray instrument. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observatory was launched in December 2021 and is presently orbiting Earth, observing X-ray sources like black holes and pulsars from space. Despite being an essential tool for scientists …