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Created: 2025-07-27 23:06:46 UTC

In a groundbreaking experiment in 2013, physicist Aneta Stodolna and her team at the FOM Institute in the Netherlands captured the first-ever image of an electron’s orbital inside a hydrogen atom.

This astonishing achievement reveals the actual “shape” of an electron’s wave function, visualizing how it exists not as a fixed point, but as a cloud of probability dictated by quantum physics. Until this moment, electron orbits were known only through mathematical abstractions like the Schrödinger equation. Seeing them directly was once considered impossible.

The breakthrough came through the invention of a quantum microscope.




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