Physicists believe that warp drive could exist in the next 100 years
Warp drive has long lived in science fiction, but physicists now treat it as a real, if deeply…
Scientists propose lunar lasers inside shadowed moon craters
Scientists have proposed placing an ultrastable laser system inside permanently shadowed craters near the Moon’s south pole, where…
Scientists May Have Found Dark Matter’s Fingerprint in a Black Hole Collision
Gravitational waves from colliding black holes may hold subtle clues about one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark…
Faint black hole ‘ringing’ provides a sharper test of Einstein’s gravity
When two black holes crash together, the violence does not end at impact. The newly formed black hole…
In 1967, a Cambridge student spotted a ‘scruffy’ printout blip that revealed the universe’s mysterious ticking stars
In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered an unusual, regularly pulsing radio signal. This led to the identification of…
Gravitational Waves Could Become New Tool in Hunt for Dark Matter
Researchers have developed a new method to identify whether black hole mergers occurred inside dense clouds of dark…
A new way to spot signs of dark matter | MIT News
Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way…
Scientists Just Discovered How the Universe Builds Monster Black Holes
Astronomers studying gravitational waves have uncovered evidence that the Universe’s largest black holes may grow through repeated collisions…
A big step forward for optical core of China’s Taiji gravitational wave project
In the sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, humans build “gravitational wave antennas” to broadcast to the cosmos. Now,…
How black holes become cosmic monsters: Scientists uncover the violent merger chain behind giant space objects |
The Universe keeps throwing up surprises, and black holes are right at the centre of it. The biggest…
Gravitational waves as dark matter seeds
Dark matter’s origin is still a puzzle. A new study by Professor Joachim Kopp from Johannes Gutenberg University…
Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe
For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit…