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This illustration shows how some of the light coming from a disk around a black hole is bent back onto the disk itself due to the gravity of the hefty black hole. The light is then reflected back off the disk. Astronomers using data from NASA's now-defunct Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) mission were able to distinguish between light that came straight from the disk and light that was reflected. The bluish material coming off the black hole is an outflowing jet of energetic particles.

A new “refrigerator” super-cools molecules to nanokelvin temperatures. The technique may enable more complex, molecule-based quantum computing.

This visualization shows the magnetic field around Earth, or the magnetosphere. Earth’s magnetic field origins are still a mystery, a new MIT study finds.

Artist's impression of an active galaxy sporting a relativistic jet.

New EHT Images Reveal a Writhing Relativistic Jet Deep in the Heart of Black Hole System

Figure 1. Under electromagnetic duality, an electrically charged particle is mapped to a magnetic monopole, and vice versa. The form of the Maxwell equations is preserved by this operation.

Unusual ozone hole opens over the Arctic.

Saturn and it's aurora.

Illustration of multiwavelength 3C 279 jet structure in April 2017. The observing epochs, arrays, and wavelengths are noted at each panel.

UNESCO on 30 March hosted an online meeting of representatives of ministries in charge of science all over the world. Participants included 77 ministers, including governmental secretaries representing a total of 122 countries, as well as Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Sarah Anyang Agbor, African Union Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology, Moisés Omar Halleslevens Acevedo, former Vice President of Nicaragua and Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the World Health Organization’s Chief Scientist.