Questions tagged [high-energy-astrophysics]
Questions touching the field of elementary particle physics, which require high energies to be studied. Use this tag if you are asking about quarks, gluons, mesons, hadrons, leptons, etc.
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How can astronomers pinpoint the location of the source of a neutrino?
In the popular press, in recent months, we have heard a lot about high-energy neutrinos from far outside our solar system reaching our detectors....
But I wonder...
If a single neutrino from a great ...
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How can a singularity rotate?
So I've heard that all black holes that have been observed rotate to some degree. But if it has zero radius, how is it even possible for the black hole itself to be spinning? Or is it just all the ...
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Does a gravitational wave loses energy over distance?
How does a gravitational wave travel over vast distances without losing its energy? Could they go on forever as long as the Space?
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Do the newly-created deuterons in our Sun release any photons? In addition to a positron and an electron neutrino?
Perhaps this is a nuclear physics question, but....
When two colliding protons deep inside our Sun finally turn into a deuterium nucleus or deutron (after approximately ten octillion chances, on ...
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