‘Impossible’ merger of two massive black holes explained
A still image from a computer simulation of a black hole’s formation and evolution. Credit: Ore Gottleib/Simons Foundation…
Within a second after the Big Bang, particle interactions may have created black holes, boson stars and cannibal stars
Fraction of dark matter density in PBHs fBH, as a function of PBH mass MBH, for a fixed…
X-ray techniques map and measure the invisible properties of altermagnets
Calculated RPED patterns of MnTe for circular po-larized light with helicity q || L~ [1100] at the L3-resonance…
Tropical spiders craft giant doppelgängers as decoys
Spider-like decoys observed by the researchers. Credit: Ecology and Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1002/ece3.72371 The extraordinary anti-predator strategy of…
The ‘anti-weather’ of Venus
Surface of Venus, as seen by Venera 13. Credit: Venera 13/Don P.Mitchell Conditions on Venus’s surface have largely…
Could mass arise without the Higgs boson?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The geometry of space, where physical laws unfold, may also hold answers to some…
Breakthrough could connect quantum computers at 200X the distance
New research from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) Asst. Prof. Tian Zhong could…
Mating injuries may give us a new way of identifying dinosaur genders
Hadrosaurid tails and location of pathologies in relation to the cloacal region. Credit: iScience (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113739 Paleontologists…
Quantum nonlocality may be inherent in the very nature of identical particles
Nonlocality seems to be enchanted into such a fundamental property of our universe as the indistinguishability of quantum…
East African Rift study uncovers why breaking up is hard for some continents
Lake Turkana, seen in the background in Kenya’s Rift Valley, sits within one of the most tectonically active…
NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars—twin satellites dubbed Blue and Gold will launch in early November
An artist’s rendition of the two ESCAPADE satellites in orbit around Mars. Credit: NASA The first dual-satellite mission…
Nearby pulsar offers insights into emission physics near the death line
Pulse stacks of PSR J2129+4119 observed on September 29, 2024, showing three distinct behaviors: steady drifting (left), intermittent…