Robert Garisto
@robertgaristo.bsky.social
Physicist. Editor. Writer.
Pinned
Job Opening: Full-Time Associate Editor, PRL
We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in gravitation, astrophysics, or cosmology, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal.
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We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in gravitation, astrophysics, or cosmology, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal.
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#PRLjournalclub
Please join us in a week, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025 12p EST
for a live discussion with the authors of Lysak et al about
New Plasma Regime in Jupiter’s Auroral Zones
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Please join us in a week, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025 12p EST
for a live discussion with the authors of Lysak et al about
New Plasma Regime in Jupiter’s Auroral Zones
PRL: go.aps.org/4lpgnng #OpenAccess
Free registration: go.aps.org/4oZN8ZK
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
#PRLjournalclub
Please join us in a week, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025 12p EST
for a live discussion with the authors of Lysak et al about
New Plasma Regime in Jupiter’s Auroral Zones
PRL: go.aps.org/4lpgnng #OpenAccess
Free registration: go.aps.org/4oZN8ZK
Please join us in a week, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025 12p EST
for a live discussion with the authors of Lysak et al about
New Plasma Regime in Jupiter’s Auroral Zones
PRL: go.aps.org/4lpgnng #OpenAccess
Free registration: go.aps.org/4oZN8ZK
Job Opening: Full-Time Associate Editor, PRL
We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in gravitation, astrophysics, or cosmology, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal.
aps.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a27...
We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in gravitation, astrophysics, or cosmology, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal.
aps.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a27...
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Job Opening: Full-Time Associate Editor, PRL
We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in gravitation, astrophysics, or cosmology, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal.
aps.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a27...
We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in gravitation, astrophysics, or cosmology, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal.
aps.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a27...
Quantum memory with protocol that enhances efficiency while *reducing* noise.
Efficiency: 94.6±1%
Fidelity: 98.9±0.1%
PRL: go.aps.org/4qnrz6C
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4qklrvV
Efficiency: 94.6±1%
Fidelity: 98.9±0.1%
PRL: go.aps.org/4qnrz6C
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4qklrvV
Near-Perfect Broadband Quantum Memory Enabled by Intelligent Spin-Wave Compaction
A new approach stores and retrieves quantum states with record reliability, paving the way for improved quantum information processing.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Quantum memory with protocol that enhances efficiency while *reducing* noise.
Efficiency: 94.6±1%
Fidelity: 98.9±0.1%
PRL: go.aps.org/4qnrz6C
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4qklrvV
Efficiency: 94.6±1%
Fidelity: 98.9±0.1%
PRL: go.aps.org/4qnrz6C
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4qklrvV
Quasicrystals grow defect-free around pores, thus accommodating structural disruptions due to phasonic degrees of freedom
PRL: go.aps.org/4nYh5cx
PhysMag: physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
PRL: go.aps.org/4nYh5cx
PhysMag: physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
Quasicrystals Grow Smoothly Around Obstacles
Large-scale obstacles to crystal growth can throw the whole lattice off kilter, but quasicrystals can accommodate them without losing their atomic-scale order.
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October 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Quasicrystals grow defect-free around pores, thus accommodating structural disruptions due to phasonic degrees of freedom
PRL: go.aps.org/4nYh5cx
PhysMag: physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
PRL: go.aps.org/4nYh5cx
PhysMag: physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
Chills from a condensed matter abstract from 40 yrs ago:
"We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state." @nobelprize.bsky.social
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"We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state." @nobelprize.bsky.social
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Energy-Level Quantization in the Zero-Voltage State of a Current-Biased Josephson Junction
We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state. The position of...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Chills from a condensed matter abstract from 40 yrs ago:
"We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state." @nobelprize.bsky.social
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"We report the first observation of quantized energy levels for a macroscopic variable, namely the phase difference across a current-biased Josephson junction in its zero-voltage state." @nobelprize.bsky.social
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Congratulations to John Clarke, Michael Devoret, & John Martinis
Nobel in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling & energy quantization in an electric circuit" in 3 PRLs
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Nobel in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling & energy quantization in an electric circuit" in 3 PRLs
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October 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Congratulations to John Clarke, Michael Devoret, & John Martinis
Nobel in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling & energy quantization in an electric circuit" in 3 PRLs
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Nobel in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling & energy quantization in an electric circuit" in 3 PRLs
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30% of PRL authors use End Matter after just a year! I’ve seen it improve many a Letter. #PeerReviewWeek
September 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
30% of PRL authors use End Matter after just a year! I’ve seen it improve many a Letter. #PeerReviewWeek
I'd like to thank everyone who helped carefully & quickly vet this Letter & bring it to publication: authors, editors, other staff, and especially the referees.
(Received 13 August 2025; revised 25 August 2025; accepted 26 August 2025; published 10 September 2025)
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(Received 13 August 2025; revised 25 August 2025; accepted 26 August 2025; published 10 September 2025)
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September 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I'd like to thank everyone who helped carefully & quickly vet this Letter & bring it to publication: authors, editors, other staff, and especially the referees.
(Received 13 August 2025; revised 25 August 2025; accepted 26 August 2025; published 10 September 2025)
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(Received 13 August 2025; revised 25 August 2025; accepted 26 August 2025; published 10 September 2025)
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** STEPHEN HAWKING WAS RIGHT **
Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility.
PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open
Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility.
PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open
September 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
** STEPHEN HAWKING WAS RIGHT **
Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility.
PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open
Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility.
PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open
Speculative but intriguing proposal for a neutrino laser using superradiant ν emission from a Bose-Einstein condensate of radioactive ⁸³Rb
PRL: go.aps.org/3KaIvg4 #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/3V6Sp4U
PRL: go.aps.org/3KaIvg4 #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/3V6Sp4U
Superradiant Neutrino Lasers from Radioactive Condensates
A Bose-Einstein condensate of radioactive atoms could turn into a source of intense, coherent, and directional neutrino beams, according to a theoretical proposal.
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September 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Speculative but intriguing proposal for a neutrino laser using superradiant ν emission from a Bose-Einstein condensate of radioactive ⁸³Rb
PRL: go.aps.org/3KaIvg4 #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/3V6Sp4U
PRL: go.aps.org/3KaIvg4 #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/3V6Sp4U
Gravitational field equations describing binary black holes can be recast in a form resembling coupled Maxwell’s equations for electrodynamics
PRL: go.aps.org/4g0K9g6 🧪⚛️
PRL: go.aps.org/4g0K9g6 🧪⚛️
Unveiling the Electrodynamic Nature of Spacetime Collisions
Gravitational field equations describing binary black holes can be recast in a form resembling coupled Maxwell's equations for electrodynamics.
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September 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Gravitational field equations describing binary black holes can be recast in a form resembling coupled Maxwell’s equations for electrodynamics
PRL: go.aps.org/4g0K9g6 🧪⚛️
PRL: go.aps.org/4g0K9g6 🧪⚛️
g-2 of the muon has been measured to 127 parts per billion,
a_𝜇 = 0. 001 165 920 705(148), agreeing with previous experimental results. Theory predictions now largely agree.
PRL: go.aps.org/45IL4OY #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/45KNYmo
a_𝜇 = 0. 001 165 920 705(148), agreeing with previous experimental results. Theory predictions now largely agree.
PRL: go.aps.org/45IL4OY #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/45KNYmo
Muon Experiment Calls It a Wrap
The final results from the Muon g − 2 experiment agree with the latest predictions of the muon’s magnetic properties—letting down hopes that the particle would upset the standard model’s applecart.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
g-2 of the muon has been measured to 127 parts per billion,
a_𝜇 = 0. 001 165 920 705(148), agreeing with previous experimental results. Theory predictions now largely agree.
PRL: go.aps.org/45IL4OY #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/45KNYmo
a_𝜇 = 0. 001 165 920 705(148), agreeing with previous experimental results. Theory predictions now largely agree.
PRL: go.aps.org/45IL4OY #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/45KNYmo
Fun PRL about chainmail:
"In this Letter, we propose a rigidity theory for a type of interlocked material system: the torus knot tessellation."
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"In this Letter, we propose a rigidity theory for a type of interlocked material system: the torus knot tessellation."
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August 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Fun PRL about chainmail:
"In this Letter, we propose a rigidity theory for a type of interlocked material system: the torus knot tessellation."
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"In this Letter, we propose a rigidity theory for a type of interlocked material system: the torus knot tessellation."
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Meet our new Lead Editor*: Rafael Fernandes @uofillinois.bsky.social
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*To avoid confusion, I'm not going anywhere. He will work with me as an advisor in my role as Chief Editor.
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*To avoid confusion, I'm not going anywhere. He will work with me as an advisor in my role as Chief Editor.
August 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Meet our new Lead Editor*: Rafael Fernandes @uofillinois.bsky.social
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*To avoid confusion, I'm not going anywhere. He will work with me as an advisor in my role as Chief Editor.
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*To avoid confusion, I'm not going anywhere. He will work with me as an advisor in my role as Chief Editor.
Will this idea spread? You all determine that.
Self-Reinforcing Cascades: A Spreading Model for Beliefs or Products of Varying Intensity or Quality
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Self-Reinforcing Cascades: A Spreading Model for Beliefs or Products of Varying Intensity or Quality
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Self-Reinforcing Cascades: A Spreading Model for Beliefs or Products of Varying Intensity or Quality
Models of how things spread often assume that transmission mechanisms are fixed over time. However, social contagions---the spread of ideas, beliefs, innovations---can lose or gain in momentum as they...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Will this idea spread? You all determine that.
Self-Reinforcing Cascades: A Spreading Model for Beliefs or Products of Varying Intensity or Quality
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Self-Reinforcing Cascades: A Spreading Model for Beliefs or Products of Varying Intensity or Quality
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Next in PRL’s series of forward-looking Essays, Che Ting Chan highlights how photonic crystals can be used to study a wide variety of physical phenomena and technologies go.aps.org/3Jn8QHy #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️
Essay: Photonic Crystals as a Platform to Explore New Physics
In this PRL Essay, Che Ting Chan offers a forward-looking overview of photonic crystals and how their design flexibility, symmetry properties, and experimental accessibility position them as powerful ...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Next in PRL’s series of forward-looking Essays, Che Ting Chan highlights how photonic crystals can be used to study a wide variety of physical phenomena and technologies go.aps.org/3Jn8QHy #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️
AI is used to quickly assemble ~2000 atoms without defects. As a fun demonstration of the technique, the authors created a #CatVideo about Schrödinger's cat—each pixel is an atom.
PRL: go.aps.org/40Sx1ne
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4fyNPps
PRL: go.aps.org/40Sx1ne
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4fyNPps
August 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
AI is used to quickly assemble ~2000 atoms without defects. As a fun demonstration of the technique, the authors created a #CatVideo about Schrödinger's cat—each pixel is an atom.
PRL: go.aps.org/40Sx1ne
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4fyNPps
PRL: go.aps.org/40Sx1ne
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4fyNPps
Photonic torons with 3D topology transitions and tunable spin monopoles
PRL: go.aps.org/4l9fLRH #CoolVideo 🧪⚛️
PRL: go.aps.org/4l9fLRH #CoolVideo 🧪⚛️
August 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Photonic torons with 3D topology transitions and tunable spin monopoles
PRL: go.aps.org/4l9fLRH #CoolVideo 🧪⚛️
PRL: go.aps.org/4l9fLRH #CoolVideo 🧪⚛️
New twist: Using the JWST for direct* detection of dark matter
* within the detector, not via a process such as annihilation in the distance
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* within the detector, not via a process such as annihilation in the distance
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Direct Constraints on Strongly Interacting Dark Matter from the James Webb Space Telescope
Researchers have analyzed ``blank'' calibration images, seeking signs of dark matter moving through the telescope.
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July 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New twist: Using the JWST for direct* detection of dark matter
* within the detector, not via a process such as annihilation in the distance
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* within the detector, not via a process such as annihilation in the distance
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Observation of Residual Entanglement in Entanglement Purification
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Observation of Residual Entanglement in Entanglement Purification
An experimental implementation of entanglement purification protocols with nonidentical input mixed states confirms the existence of residual entanglement in different error models.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Observation of Residual Entanglement in Entanglement Purification
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#PRLjournalclub
Please join us on Thursday, July 24th, 9p EDT for a live discussion with the authors of:
"Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor"
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Free Registration: go.aps.org/45aKKYV
Please join us on Thursday, July 24th, 9p EDT for a live discussion with the authors of:
"Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor"
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Free Registration: go.aps.org/45aKKYV
July 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
#PRLjournalclub
Please join us on Thursday, July 24th, 9p EDT for a live discussion with the authors of:
"Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor"
go.aps.org/44UlYeg
Free Registration: go.aps.org/45aKKYV
Please join us on Thursday, July 24th, 9p EDT for a live discussion with the authors of:
"Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor"
go.aps.org/44UlYeg
Free Registration: go.aps.org/45aKKYV
PRL's latest forward-looking Essay: Using Machine Learning for Antibiotic Discovery journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... 🧪⚛️
Essay: Using Machine Learning for Antibiotic Discovery
In this new forward-looking PRL Essay, C\'esar de la Fuente and James J. Collins explore the ways in which machine learning and artificial intelligence can substantially accelerate the discovery of ne...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
PRL's latest forward-looking Essay: Using Machine Learning for Antibiotic Discovery journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... 🧪⚛️
Here are PRL's metrics journals.aps.org/prl/about
•PRL is large, so not buffeted by its highest-cited papers
•A PRL is cited almost once a minute
•PRL is 60x more influential than the average journal
•PRL's Google h5 index is 50 more than the next physics journal scholar.google.com/citations?vi...)
•PRL is large, so not buffeted by its highest-cited papers
•A PRL is cited almost once a minute
•PRL is 60x more influential than the average journal
•PRL's Google h5 index is 50 more than the next physics journal scholar.google.com/citations?vi...)
July 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Here are PRL's metrics journals.aps.org/prl/about
•PRL is large, so not buffeted by its highest-cited papers
•A PRL is cited almost once a minute
•PRL is 60x more influential than the average journal
•PRL's Google h5 index is 50 more than the next physics journal scholar.google.com/citations?vi...)
•PRL is large, so not buffeted by its highest-cited papers
•A PRL is cited almost once a minute
•PRL is 60x more influential than the average journal
•PRL's Google h5 index is 50 more than the next physics journal scholar.google.com/citations?vi...)
IceCube finds no neutrinos above 10 PeV in 12.6 yrs of data
• In 2.9σ tension with the ~200 PeV KM3NeT neutrino event
• Disfavors the proton-only hypothesis for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays
PRL: go.aps.org/40mhziS
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4lOm6mg 🧪⚛️
• In 2.9σ tension with the ~200 PeV KM3NeT neutrino event
• Disfavors the proton-only hypothesis for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays
PRL: go.aps.org/40mhziS
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4lOm6mg 🧪⚛️
Search for Extremely-High-Energy Neutrinos and First Constraints on the Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Proton Fraction with IceCube
Failing to see any high-energy neutrinos allowed researchers to calculate an upper limit on the fraction of high-energy cosmic rays that are protons.
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July 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
IceCube finds no neutrinos above 10 PeV in 12.6 yrs of data
• In 2.9σ tension with the ~200 PeV KM3NeT neutrino event
• Disfavors the proton-only hypothesis for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays
PRL: go.aps.org/40mhziS
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4lOm6mg 🧪⚛️
• In 2.9σ tension with the ~200 PeV KM3NeT neutrino event
• Disfavors the proton-only hypothesis for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays
PRL: go.aps.org/40mhziS
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4lOm6mg 🧪⚛️
Explanation for runaway stars from the young R136 cluster using data from the Gaia spacecraft: interaction interaction 50K years ago of five stars in a binary & a triplet
PRL: go.aps.org/455uNlN
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4eGI2NY 🧪⚛️
PRL: go.aps.org/455uNlN
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Origin of the Most Recently Ejected OB Runaway Star from the R136 Cluster
A detailed analysis of a stellar cluster has led to a possible explanation for several fast-moving runaway stars around the cluster.
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July 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Explanation for runaway stars from the young R136 cluster using data from the Gaia spacecraft: interaction interaction 50K years ago of five stars in a binary & a triplet
PRL: go.aps.org/455uNlN
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4eGI2NY 🧪⚛️
PRL: go.aps.org/455uNlN
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4eGI2NY 🧪⚛️