Pulled from our March issue for #LightDay2024 : #Lasers amplify light by passing it repeatedly through a gain medium, usually by bouncing it between a pair of mirrors. In a soap-bubble laser, the bubble itself serves as an optical resonator. 🫧 pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/a…

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Two years ago, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration (Event Horizon 'Scope) unveiled a portrait of Sagittarius A*, the 4-million-solar-mass #BlackHole at the center of our Milky Way. Read about it here: pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/o… #BlackHole Week

Lightweight black hole or massive neutron star? This January article highlights an object in a binary system that defies categorization. #BlackHoleWeek pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/o…

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it!”

Revisit our 2016 coverage of the first LIGO discovery for #BlackHoleWeek : pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/a…

Kick off #BlackHoleWeek with this archival 1971 article by John Archibald Wheeler, the theoretical physicist credited with popularizing the term 'black hole.' x.com/PhysicsToday/s…

Remembering theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg, who was born #OTD 1933 pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/o…

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Celebrating #EarthDay : This 2022 article explains scientists' efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions without compromising research. Take a look: pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/a…

From the PT archives: Our understanding of the polar atmosphere has become much more complete since the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole. This 2014 article discusses the swift worldwide response to fix it. #EarthDay pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/a…

In 1920, shortly after Albert #Einstein had rocketed to celebrity status, Scientific American held a contest for the best essay explaining relativity to the lay public. Fittingly, the winner was a patent examiner. #histSTM pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/o…

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For the first time, the energy level of an atomic nucleus has been directly manipulated with a laser. The achievement is a key step toward developing an ultraprecise nuclear clock. pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/o…

“The corona is visible from Earth only when the Sun is up but the blue sky is absent. That situation happens only during a total solar #eclipse .” pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/a…

NEW in Physics Today’s April issue:
Embracing interactive teaching methods; Energy needs of bitcoin and AI; Hidden fluid dynamics of dry salt lakes; and more
Plus: The many phases of twisted bilayer graphene
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