Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Physicists predict the universe’s expansion will reverse, ending in a dramatic big crunch about 20 billion years from now.

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

Join the celebration of International Astronomy Day by looking up at the spectacular southern night sky, engaging in exciting ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...

Matrix models have emerged as a powerful framework in theoretical physics, offering a nonperturbative approach to describing quantum space-time. In these models, fundamental degrees of freedom are ...