SPACE

From emergence to eruption: Comprehensive model captures life of a solar flare

SPACE A team of scientists has, for the first time, used a single, cohesive computer model to simulate the entire life cycle of a solar flare: from the buildup of energy thousands of kilometers below the solar surface, to the emergence of tangled magnetic field lines, to the explosive release of energy in a brilliant flash.

The orderly chaos of black holes

Researchers at UNIGE have discovered that photons emitted during the creation of a black hole appear to be disordered; within a single time slice they however appear to be highly ordered

Researchers unravel more mysteries of metallic hydrogen

Researchers unravel more mysteries of metallic hydrogen Metallic hydrogen is one of the rarest materials on Earth, yet more than 80 percent of planets--including Jupiter, Saturn, and hundreds of extrasolar planets--are composed of this exotic form of matter.

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