A supermassive black hole (SMBH) is the biggest variety of black hole, billions times the mass of our Sun. Black holes have effectively undergone gravitational collapse, facilitating a region from which nothing can escape, not even light. The Milky...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the highest-energy particle collider in the world and was built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in collaboration with hundreds of universities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries....
Half-life decay (t1⁄2) is the time for a quantity to reduce to half of its original value. The term is used in nuclear physics to describe how unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay.
A quantum computer solves certain computational problems, such as integer factorisation, far faster than classical computers. This field of computing is a subfield of quantum information science.
Nuclear fusion is a reaction whereby two or more atomic nuclei fuse to become one or more different atomic nuclei, neutrons or protons. The net change in mass results in the release or absorption of energy. Fusion is the process that powers active...
The Higgs boson, named after physicist Peter Higgs, is an elementary particle created by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field. In 1964 Higgs (and several other scientists) had suggested this implied why particles have a mass. It was actually verified in...