How are chemical elements produced in our Universe? Where do heavy elements like gold and uranium come from? Using computer...
Binary black hole mergers are fascinating cosmological events, which have been theorized to be the among the strongest sources of...
Until now, observing subatomic structures was beyond the resolution capabilities of direct imaging methods, and this seemed unlikely to change....
Salk Institute scientists, collaborating with researchers from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University, have sequenced the genome of...
Volunteer citizen scientists parsing data from a network of telescopes around the world this year identified 10,000 new variable stars...
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky...
There’s always more to explore and understand. It holds true if you zoom out to the far reaches of the...
In a galaxy 31 million light-years away, astronomers believe they have just found evidence of a planet. After a painstaking...
In 1969, English physicist Roger Penrose discovered a property which would later allow for a long-awaited link between thermodynamics, and...
A “massive” black hole (MBH) is one whose mass is more than about one hundred thousand solar-masses. MBHs reside at...
Dutch student Arend Moerman (Leiden University, the Netherlands) has defended his thesis research on the simulation of chaotic interactions of...
A high-energy neutrino traced back to a violent encounter between a black hole and a star needs a different origin...
