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 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…
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…
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…
Quantum realism is impossible » IAI TV
Quantum mechanics started out by saying access to fundamental reality was impossible. And from the outset, some imagined…
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…
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…
Ancient Stars’ Explosive History Could Protect Earth From Cosmic Radiation
A fascinating study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, has shed light on a mysterious chapter in our Solar…
What was the loudest sound ever recorded?
Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent…