A new study suggests that the cosmic web could have formed without relying on inflation driven by a scalar field. Instead, it ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

According to new research, the earliest seeds of structures may have been laid down by gravitational waves sloshing around in ...

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To express his ideas mathematically, Einstein needed new math : Riemannian Geometry: In 1912, Einstein’s friend Marcel ...

Imagine standing by a lake and throwing a stone into the water. Waves spread out in circular patterns and can reflect at ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery ...

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

Artist Ashley Zelinskie's new VR work is called "Twin Quasar." Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I'm sorry I can't travel both — actually, wait, I can travel both.

The resulting oscillations exert a force on the electrons in graphene. This generates a circular electron density wave that ...

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $71 million in funding for 25 projects in high energy physics that will use the emerging technologies of quantum information science to answer ...