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 ...

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The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies ...

Those events are akin to throwing a pebble in a pond, but there are vibrations all the time. Some of them might end up making ...

With a project of this size—around 800 miles long, to be precise—other discoveries are also possible. In fact, a recently ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious pulses of energy that can last from a fraction of a millisecond to about three ...

At extremely high densities, quarks are expected to form pairs, a phenomenon called color superconductivity. The strength of ...

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

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...

Frog Taxi, Rewilding the Elwha River, From Shrubsteppe to Space: Searching for Black Holes. Red-legged frogs cross a busy Portland highway with help from the “Frog Taxi ; Lower Elwha Klammal ...

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, ...