Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered on Collision Course in a Cosmic First : ScienceAlert
Some 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, a massive event is unfolding on cosmic scales. There, not two, but…
Why Supermassive Black Holes Turn Down Feasts
Black holes are often referred to as cosmic vacuum cleaners, indiscriminately swallowing everything that strays too close. The…
A Century Later, Ramanujan’s Pi Equations Are Helping Physicists Unlock the Secrets of Nature
In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating the value…
A Twist Between Hidden Dimensions May Explain Mass : ScienceAlert
The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted…
Fusion reactors may create dark matter particles in their walls
Fusion reactors are designed to produce clean energy, but new theory suggests they could also generate one of…
A 50-Year Assumption About Black Holes May Have Just Been Broken
An international team of astronomers has uncovered subtle but significant signs that the cosmic engines powering quasars, some…
Three Black Holes. One Epic Cosmic Collision Just Lit up the Sky
A team of astronomers has confirmed the first known system where three galaxies are merging, and all three…
Universe will collapse into one big fireball, with stars and planets sucked into a core
The fate of the universe has changed, and according to scientists, we won’t be torn to shreds but…
Franco Debono cross-examines Einstein’s special relativity
Franco Debono has spent almost 30 years cross-examining witnesses in Malta’s criminal courts. Now he has turned his…
How quantum physics is making weapons smarter, not bigger
These advances could lead to dual-use risks as quantum tools can boost irregular warfare through cheap, portable jammers…