Using probably one of the fastest cameras in the world, scientists from Washington University in St. Louis amazingly captured a photonic Mach cone, or a sonic boom of light, in action for the first ...

Making waves: a photonic Mach cone has been captured by ultrafast, single-shot technique. (Courtesy: Jinyang Liang and Lihong Wang) The optical equivalent of a sonic boom has been filmed for the first ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are finally able to capture moving imagery of an optical Mach cone, thanks to a newly constructed apparatus. While scientists believed that the Mach ...

A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has taken images of a laser pulse generating an optical Mach cone: the equivalent of a sonic boom, but for light. To make an optical Mach ...

Most people are familiar with sonic booms, even if they don’t know exactly how they work. NASA explains that air reacts like a fluid to objects that are moving faster than the speed of sound. This ...

For the first time ever, researchers have invented a camera fast enough to record the scattering of light. The team used this “speed of light” camera to record moving footage of a photonic Mach cone — ...

Supersonic air travel is great if you want to get somewhere quickly. Indeed, the Concorde could rush you from New York to London in less than three and a half hours, over twice as fast as a ...