Monthly Archives: September 2014

Testing physics with dead stars

Testing physics with dead stars

Using Hubble Space Telescope observations of dead stars, we've tested fundamental physics in a gravity field 20,000 times stronger than here on Earth. Our paper is published today in Physical…
Three eyes tracking nature’s laws

Three eyes tracking nature’s laws

We've used the 3 most powerful optical telescopes on Earth to test a fundamental law of nature 10 billion years ago! Swinburne University PhD student, Tyler Evans, led this new…