New experiment finds weird atomic nucleus with dumbbell shape

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I used to think that atomic nuclei are basically little balls, but this paper which just appeared found one that's the shape of a dumbbell. And it's not even a highly unstable one, it's Berryllium-10 which is radioactive, but has a half-life of more than a million years.

Paper here: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.212501

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