Scientists reveal the hidden forces shaping how gravity works across the Universe
Gravity behaves predictably in your daily life. Drop a ball, and it falls. Planets loop around stars. On…
Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundamental Principles of Nature
For the past few decades, researchers have understood that quantum computers should eventually be able to crack the…
5 Questions for Edoardo Baldini – UT Austin News
What is a recent discovery your research has uncovered, and how would you explain it to someone outside…
Astronomers find compelling new evidence of the first stars formed after the Big Bang
A faint glow of helium, hanging near one of the earliest known galaxies, may be the clearest sign…
Scientists Finally Measured The Mind-Blowing Power of a Black Hole’s Jets : ScienceAlert
Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe. They can fling material outwards at speeds…
Gravity holds across cosmos, proving Newton and Einstein right
Scientists have tested gravity across some of the largest structures in the universe and found that it behaves…
How black holes wield the firepower of 10,000 suns
Black holes are famous for using their gravity to trap matter and light within their dark hearts. But…
NIST Weighs In on the Mystery of the Gravitational Constant
NIST scientists Stephan Schlamminger (left) and Vincent Lee examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational…
US tests spin fuel in 180-million-degree Fahrenheit plasma for reactors
Scientists in the US have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel inside tokamaks operating at around 100 million degrees…
Dark Matter May Be Made of Black Holes From Another Universe
A recent cosmological model combines two of the most eccentric ideas in contemporary physics to explain the nature…
This may be the daughter of one of our universe’s 1st stars. Scientists call it an ‘ancient immigrant’
A pristine star found to be devoid of almost any elements heavier than hydrogen and helium might be…
Scientists Use Rare ‘Einstein Cross’ to Discover Unexpectedly Mature Stars in 8 Billion-Year-Old Galaxy
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have used a rare “Einstein Cross” gravitational lens to investigate a young galaxy…