Topological protection provides unprecedented robustness of physical phenomena against all kinds of perturbations; but in doing so, it exercises topological...
Quasars are the most luminous objects in the universe and are powered by material accreting onto supermassive black holes at...
A Doppler shift is defined as a change of frequency of light or sound when an object is moving toward...
Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That’s...
In a paper published in Physical Review Letters this week, physicists from Amsterdam and Copenhagen argue that close observations of...
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around a supermassive...
An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the...
In a new study, MIT physicists propose that if most of the dark matter in the universe is made up...
With the help of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led by scientists in the Department of...
Theoretical physicists develop method to model a central theory of quantum gravity in the laboratory
Gravity is no longer a mystery to physicists—at least when it comes to large distances. Thanks to science, we can...
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies...
Chinese researchers have discovered a promising mass-gap black hole using radial velocity and astrometry methods. The study was published online...
