Light can travel for billions of years yet experience no time
A photon emitted from a star a billion light-years away arrives at a telescope having experienced no time…
How microwaves let us tune into one another – and the universe
Learn more about how microwaves revolutionised our ways of communicating and helped us understand the origins of the…
Physicists just solved a strange fusion mystery that stumped experts
Scientists have struggled for years to explain a curious pattern inside tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines designed to one…
Trapped ion quantum technology gets smaller – Physics World
Trapped ion quantum technology gets smaller – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World…
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.…