Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international team of researchers found that the beams were narrow and nearly parallel, ...

Scientists have recently made a groundbreaking discovery, detecting gravitational waves from the formation of two newborn ...

In the 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves, we have detected hundreds of these waves produced by the ...

According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, if there's any way you can choose your manner of dying, then you ought to pick being sucked ...

If a new proposal by physicists bears out, the recent detection of a record-setting neutrino could be the first evidence of elusive Hawking radiation. (Nanowerk News) The last gasp of a primordial ...

The deepest mysteries of the universe often begin with the biggest questions. Few are more puzzling than the birth of supermassive black holes. These giants, weighing millions to billions of times ...

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.