In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the existence of mirror asymmetries in our universe by studying the handedness of the ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

That which normally speaks about the monumental achievements of Einstein’s “equations”: barely known to his tempi, they predict gravitational lensing, black holes, expansion of the universe. Of course ...

On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery was a watershed moment in physics and astrophysics, ...

In this scenario, the insides of black holes are connected to their outsides through "quantum nonlocality" — in which correlated particles share the same quantum state — an effect Einstein ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...