Recent advancements in these fields—dynamic molecular interactions in nanoporous materials and the discovery of visible ...

Two Indian physicists have theoretically proposed a path-breaking idea which could fundamentally change the current view about the contents of the universe and potentially provide ways to probe a holy ...

This week, scientists with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reported that a key current, the Atlantic Meridional ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...

Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, has passed all tests with predictions that are spot-on. One prediction that remains is "gravitational wave memory"—the prediction that a passing ...

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Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than ...

Black holes are regions in space where an enormous amount of mass is packed into a tiny volume. This creates a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. They are created when giant ...

Edwards studies stars that are forming deep within molecular clouds in the galaxy. The gravitational collapse of rotating, denser-than-average "cores" within a molecular cloud results in the creation ...

Gravitational physicists explore the implications of the general theory of relativity, in which gravitation is a consequence of the curvature of space and time. This curvature thus controls the motion ...

gravitational attraction tends to collapse the star radiation pressure from the fusion reactions tends to expand the star forces caused by gravitational attraction and fusion energy are balanced ...