antimatter

A Huge Beam of Antimatter Has Been Caught Streaming From This Runaway Pulsar

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A runaway dead star zooming through space at breakneck speeds has left behind a huge trail of matter and antimatter particles. The star is a pulsar called PSR J2030+4415 or J2030 for short; it’s around 20 kilometers (12 miles) in diameter, and it’s speeding through space at a breakneck velocity of around 450 kilometers per … Read more

This gleaming experiment may solve the cosmic mystery of antimatter

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By Gege Li Two views of LEGEND’s scintillation light detector fibre modules (above and below) with light-capturing fibres (green), part of the equipment needed to try to spot antineutrinos annihilating each other Enrico Sacchetti Photographer Enrico Sacchetti THESE gleaming images, taken by photographer Enrico Sacchetti, show key components of an experiment that could finally shed … Read more

Matter and antimatter respond to gravity in the same way, study finds

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Matter and antimatter behave the same way under the influence of gravity, a new study found, leaving scientists no wiser as to what makes the two different.  Antimatter is the puzzling stuff created during the Big Bang together with normal matter. It is virtually normal matter’s mirror — exactly the same, only with the opposite … Read more