For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

Einstein’s equations were written for chalkboards and paper, yet they now sit at the heart of some of the most visually spectacular simulations ever run on a supercomputer. By folding general ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

A new warp-drive study proposes a novel segmented design that brings hyper-fast space travel one step closer to becoming a ...

Researchers have created a fully relativistic model showing that gravitational waves might carry hidden clues about dark ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...