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On 14 September, 2015, the international LIGO/Virgo collaboration detected the very first gravitational wave signal, a tiny distortion of spacetime predicted by Einstein, in this case produced by the merger of two black holes. The CNRS astrophysicist Marie-...
Article
11.03.2025
Why is the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, so much hotter than its surface? Ten years after formulating a hypothesis based on a numerical model, CNRS researchers have now used direct observations of the star's surface to confirm...
Article
10.09.2025
With large-scale observation campaigns, innovative data analysis methods and theoretical advances on all fronts, astrophysics and cosmology are entering a high-precision era with the potential to unravel many of the unsolved mysteries of the Universe....
Article
09.12.2025
During his “miraculous year” 120 years ago, Albert Einstein explained the photoelectric effect, laying the foundations of quantum mechanics. The historian of science Christian Bracco provides an insight.
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07.09.2025
02.11.2016
In order to discover gravitational waves, detectors must be able to distinguish movements as small as one billionth the size of an atom. This major feat of sensitivity has been accomplished and...
Opinion
02.04.2016
The scientific world is in turmoil, our Solar System could have a new ninth planet. Historian of science at the CNRS, Denis Guthleben revisits this announcement in light of the recent, and not so...
01.11.2016
A century after Einstein published his theory of general relativity, one of its most disturbing predictions remains intriguing: to what extent does the proximity of massive bodies such as planets,...