Monday, June 20, 2011

Week in science: star-swallowing black holes and cellular lasers

First time ever: scientists see jets as black hole swallows a star: A high-energy outburst from an otherwise mundane galaxy went on for days, producing an event that even astrophysicists are calling "unprecedented." They think we've finally watched a black hole swallow a star and send jets of material straight at Earth.

Give me the right phase and an amplitude and I will lift the Moon: Two research groups provide elegant demonstrations of how directly controlling the phase and amplitude of light can allow you to do some pretty spectacular things, like focusing light in space and time and focusing plasmons without any physical structures.

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