For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity. One explains the tiny world of particles; the other describes ...
Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...
Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...
Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...
Learn more about black holes and what causes them to ring. A massive new study adds evidence to theories by Einstein, Hawking ...
According to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the behavior of a black hole depends on two numbers: how heavy it is, and how fast it is rotating. And that’s it. Black holes are said to ...
One hundred years after Albert Einstein proposed his theory of general relativity, a theoretical physicist, Erik Verlinde from the University of Amsterdam, proposes a revision, suggesting that gravity ...