A beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at all
A photon can cross a billion light-years while accumulating no elapsed time along its path.Special relativity links space…
This Star Is Racing Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 8% the Speed of Light
Illustration of a sunlike star passing very close to a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser…
New Black Hole Theory Solves a 50-Year-Old Problem
Illustration of a black hole that is growing in response to an influx of energy. New research from…
Astronomers Find a New Clue for Detecting Runaway Supermassive Black Holes
Artist’s rendition of an Active Galactic Nucleus with the accretion disk highlighted. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s…
Physicists Devise Black Hole Alternative With a ‘Mini Universe’ at Its Center
Theoretically, black holes emerged from the principles of Albert Einstein’s general relativity (gravity as distortions of spacetime), but…
Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement
Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker…
Wormholes may enable time travel, astrophysicists find
A ring in space, at least on paper, can do something a black hole cannot. It can connect…
Wormholes may enable time travel, astrophysicists find
A ring in space, at least on paper, can do something a black hole cannot. It can connect…
Collapsing stars could form gravastars instead of black holes
A black hole is supposed to be the last word in stellar collapse: matter falls inward, spacetime caves…
Time May Not Exist Everywhere in the Universe
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Past attempts to reconcile quantum theory with relativity have…
Can Our Model of the Cosmos Work Without Dark Energy? New Research Says It Can
Dark energy has been a mysterious element of cosmological equation since it was proposed three decades ago, but…
A Strange Black Hole Mystery Has Stumped Physicists Since 1993. Researchers May Finally Have the Answer
In 1993, Canadian physicist Matthew Choptuik demonstrated black holes may emerge spontaneously from critical collapse, during which spacetime…