Ever since humans first gazed up at the night sky, the Universe has filled us with awe and wonder. Lately, however, it's also ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

A peculiar celestial couple has been identified about 3,800 light-years away, in the constellation Centaurus. Designated Gaia ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...

Now, in the journal Physical Review Letters, researchers say their ability to analyze gravitational waves has improved so much over the past decade that they were recently able to verify a key idea ...

A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official ...

Ramanujan's pi-computing machinery exactly mirrors the necessary structure in modern physical theories (LCFTs).

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...