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…
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 Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Isn’t As Destructive As Thought.
The center of the Milky Way is an extreme environment dominated by the supermassive black hole (SMBH) Sagittarius…
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…
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…
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…
Oxfordshire laser set to be among world’s most powerful
The Vulcan 20-20 is being built at the Central Laser Facility (CLF), part of the Science and Technology…
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…
Oxfordshire laser set to be among world’s most powerful
The Vulcan 20-20 is being built at the Central Laser Facility (CLF), part of the Science and Technology…
Where’s the normal matter in our universe?
Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog the whereabouts…