The Polarimetry and Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectroscopy Services are analytical facilities based in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and are offered to all University of Sheffield ...

New findings using data from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona.

Using simple circuitry, polarizing film, and LEGO toy bricks, an undergraduate physics student from the Ateneo de Manila ...

Cochran, Anita L. Levasseur-Regourd, Anny-Chantal Cordiner, Martin Hadamcik, Edith Lasue, Jérémie Gicquel, Adeline Schleicher, David G. Charnley, Steven B. Mumma ...

Now, researchers using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have gathered data about 12 known black holes to determine the structural properties of accretion disks around different sized ...

Each optically active form, or isomer, of a compound will be able to rotate the plane of polarized light by an amount characteristic of that isomer. Polarimetry is a sensitive, nondestructive method ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

The discovery of primordial gravitational waves through cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization B-modes remains one of the most significant objectives in cosmology, as it would provide the ...

The study of X-ray emission from astronomical objects reveals secrets about the universe at the largest and smallest spatial ...

The pulsar of the nebula is located in the “palm” of the ghost hand, and now images taken by NASA’s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), have given us an ...

This unique property has applications in areas like generating special optical forces, achieving flat-top intensity profiles, ...