Study claims the universe will end sooner than we thought
Far in the future, long after stars stop shining, the universe will contain nothing but their leftovers: black…
These celestial objects survive the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
At the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole about 4 million…
Direct Images Of Nova Explosions Reveal Their Complexity
White dwarfs are called stellar remnants because they’re what’s left of main sequence stars after they’ve shed most…
An Oxford Physicist Is Shaking Up Our Understanding of Reality
Below, Vlatko Veral shares five key insights from his new book, Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways…
The Primordial Black Hole Saga: Part 2 – Not Your Normal Black Holes
(This is Part 2 of a series on primordial black holes. Check out Part 1 here!) At the…
Radio Signals from Antarctica Have Experts Scrambling—They Defy All Known Science
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment was launched with the goal of detecting radio waves produced by…
Historic search for ‘huge missing piece’ of the universe turns up negative — but reveals new secrets of particle physics
A record-breaking investigation, using a particle detector a mile underground in South Dakota, may have revealed new insights…
Hubble Tension: Gravitational Lenses Confirm That Something Is Still Broken In The Universe
Researchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and…
Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides Into the Chat.
The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is…
Could the “Hubble Tension” Finally Be Solved? A New Cosmic Map May Hold the Answer
A new study, published on Arxiv, has deepened the cosmic puzzle surrounding the “Hubble tension,” an ongoing debate…
Time might not exist – and we’re starting to understand why
The nature of time is one of the most profound and longstanding problems in physics – one that…
Astronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures ever found in the Universe
image: A figure illustrating the rotation of neutral hydrogen (right) in galaxies residing in an extended filament (middle),…