An international team of scientists working with the Event Horizon Telescope project have been able to measure the radius of a black hole for the first time. It was in 1781 that astronomer Charles ...

More than 2,000 years ago, pretty much every educated human knew the Earth was round. There are some pretty obvious clues, after all. If you travel south, you see stars and constellations you’ve never ...

Physicists in Germany have carried out the most accurate measurement to date of the width of the proton. By examining a previously unexplored energy-level transition in the hydrogen atom, Lothar ...

After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.

Trichy: Tamil Nadu astronomy science society (TASS) jointly with Vigyan Prasar and Ariviyal Palagai, department of science and technology conducted workshops for school and college students in Trichy ...

Big problems sometimes come in small packages. The problem with which physicists must now concern themselves measures a mere 0.0350 millionth of a millionth of a millimetre. This is precisely the ...

TORONTO, September 5, 2019 - York University researchers have made a precise measurement of the size of the proton - a crucial step towards solving a mystery that has preoccupied scientists around the ...

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It took an array of four radio dishes positioned around the globe and an international team of astronomers to do it, but it was well worth the effort: Astronomers have measured the radius of a ...

Researchers have made a precise measurement of the size of the proton -- a crucial step towards solving a mystery that has preoccupied scientists around the world for the past decade. The world's ...