Sir Anthony Leggett obituary: theoretical physicist
Anthony Leggett not only carved out a reputation as a pioneering theoretical physicist but in 2003 shared the…
‘Project Hail Mary’s’ Relativity Problem Is More Complicated Than You Think
When Ryland Grace reaches Tau Ceti in Project Hail Mary, about four years have passed for his human…
Why Are Supermassive Black Holes Growing So Slowly?
As our powerful infrared telescopes allow astronomers to peer further and further back in time, they’ve discovered some…
These Pretty Light Cones Actually Represent Einstein’s Theory of Spacetime Relativity
Elliot McGucken These photos of 70-foot-tall light cones shimmering over the Californian desert may look beautiful, but scratch…
Rare Gravitational Wave Discovery May Hold the Key to First Evidence of Primordial Black Holes
esearchers may have detected the first direct evidence of primordial black holes, potentially reshaping our understanding of dark…
The Darkness Inside It : ScienceAlert
For the first time, physicists have observed that ‘holes’ in light can move faster than the light itself.…
New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang
One of the greatest unsolved problems in physics concerns unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity—two equally successful theories…
Groundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big Bang
A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the…
Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter, Validating a Violent Cosmic Collision Theory
Astronomers have long argued that dark matter is the invisible scaffolding that holds galaxies together. Without its immense…
China has activated a magnet 700,000 times more powerful than the Earth’s magnetic field that operates for over 200 consecutive hours while consuming little energy, and now the world wants to know what Beijing plans to do with this technology in 2026.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has created a superconducting magnet of 35.6 tesla, more than 700,000 times stronger…