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 ...

Albert Einstein, everyone’s favorite wild-haired genius with a mischievous grin, is more than just a pop culture icon whose legend lives on today. He’s arguably the most influential scientist of the ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the driving force behind creation. Their simulations show that gravity and ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

BERKELEY — Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe during a long career at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...

Planets orbiting dead stars known as white dwarfs might be able to remain habitable thanks to general relativity subtly altering their motion. When stars like our sun run out of fuel, they expand and ...

As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...

For over a century, physics has been divided between the elegance of Einstein’s relativity and the strangeness of quantum mechanics. A new framework, the quantum memory matrix, suggests that spacetime ...

When it comes to AMC empress Nicole Kidman, the gays do not play around. We worship this woman with a ferocity equaled only by our love for the powerful thighs of Railroad Daddy Morgan Spector. But ...