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#ERCStG 🇪🇺 🏆 | Félicitations à @TomChaigne, chercheur @CNRS à l'@InstitutFresnel qui est lauréat de la bourse européenne @ERC_Research Starting Grant 2023 en Provence ! Découvrez son portrait : provence-corse.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/th…

When vortex light beams are addressed, it is easy to get confused about the phase and the state of polarization (SoP) of a beam. Below a thread to clarify all this, I hope… ⤵️


When an "imaging artifact" turns out to be one of the wildest things we've ever observed in the universe. A supermassive black hole. Ejected from its galaxy. Compressed gas in its wake. AND FORMED A 200,000 LIGHT-YEAR LONG STRING OF STARS. WHAT.






(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video. Well, I have good news.





BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.












