Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

This idea was once thought to lie beyond the reach of scientific inquiry,” said physicist Mir Faizal of the University of ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Astronomers have detected two extraordinary gravitational wave events that may have come from black holes formed in earlier ...