This photo taken on Sept 29, 2025 shows an interior view of the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

After holding onto the record for possessing the world's most powerful centrifuge (or hypergravity machine) for close to three decades, the U.S. ceded that title to China in 2025. When China's new ...

China has eclipsed its own – and the US – record, building a monster underground hypergravity centrifuge that can model scenarios with 1,900 times the real-world gravitational force of Earth, bending ...

What just happened? Deep beneath Zhejiang University in eastern China, scientists have switched on what is now the world's most powerful hypergravity machine – a massive centrifuge capable of ...

China has unveiled an extremely powerful “hypergravity machine” that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth’s regular gravity. The futuristic-looking machine, called ...

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China has surpassed its own hypergravity machine technology with another centrifuge that is currently the most powerful in the world China has claimed a decisive new lead in experimental physics with ...

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