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2 May 2024
Scientists find spectacular black hole
Thanks to the Gaia space telescope, scientists have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way. The object, Gaia BH3, is located in the Eagle constellation, less than 2 000 light yea...
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26 Apr 2024
New key to the world of quantum mechanics: the intensity of light affects electrons’ kinetic energy
Particles, sometimes a long way from one another, can be entangled. This strange phenomenon completely confounds our intuition, but the explanation for it has been provided through...
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4 Apr 2024
Two physicists become new Wallenberg Scholars
Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Semiconductor Materials, and Heiner Linke, Professor of Nanophysics, have been named Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice W...
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23 Feb 2024
New super-simulation of how galaxies are formed
Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. But there are a number of sources of error. An...
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20 Feb 2024
Detecting "Spooky Action at a Distance" with imperfect detectors
Entanglement, once dismissed by Einstein as an impossible phenomenon but later shown to be possible by Nobel Prize-winning physicists, continues to raise questions. How can we know...
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13 Feb 2024
New way of designing circuits could lead to large-scale quantum computers
By utilising quantum mechanics, a quantum computer can solve computational problems that today's supercomputers cannot. But there are problems. As the circuits in quantum computers...
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22 Jan 2024
Snails illustrate how new materials can be built at the nano level
Jonas Johansson is a professor of physics and develops new knowledge for the production of materials at the nanoscale. Anastasia Tsioki is a first-year student on LTH's MSc in Engi...
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12 Jan 2024
“A tremendous impact on the transformation towards a sustainable future”
WISE, the Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is the largest-ever investment in materials science in Sweden and is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg...
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9 Jan 2024
Eva Lindroth appointed as new honorary doctor at LTH
Eva Lindroth is professor of Theoretical Physics at Stockholm University. In addition to being a highly cited and excellent researcher, she has been assistant supervisor for severa...
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9 Jan 2024
World-leading astrophysicist appointed new honorary doctor of science
The American astronomer R. Michael Rich has charted the innermost parts of the Milky Way using spectroscopy. R. Michael Rich have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of...