The Most Powerful Neutrino Ever Detected May Have a Surprising Cosmic Source
This artist’s conception shows a blazar – the core of an active galaxy powered by a supermassive black…
Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe
For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit…
Largest 3D Map of the Universe Is Adding Serious Fuel to the Cosmology Crisis
Last week, the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) concluded its first official survey. Over the past five years,…
Mississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the lab
For years, physicists have wondered whether one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam inside…
Rithika Merchant’s ‘Pillars of Fruit and Bone’ Imagines New Worlds
Exoskeleton, gouache, watercolor and ink on paper, 2024. Contemporary artist Rithika Merchant centers her practice on building intricate…
Astronomers find compelling new evidence of the first stars formed after the Big Bang
A faint glow of helium, hanging near one of the earliest known galaxies, may be the clearest sign…
Dark Matter May Be Made of Black Holes From Another Universe
A recent cosmological model combines two of the most eccentric ideas in contemporary physics to explain the nature…
Gravity holds across cosmos, proving Newton and Einstein right
Scientists have tested gravity across some of the largest structures in the universe and found that it behaves…
The coldest ever hunt for dark matter has begun deep underground
Two kilometres underground near Sudbury, Ont., a machine has reached a temperature so low it barely seems real.…
Gravitational waves may be responsible for dark matter in the universe
Dark matter is thought to exist everywhere, wrapping around galaxies and helping to shape the largest things in…