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A distant black hole is surrounded by a much larger disk of spacestuff than scientists expected, giving them a rare glimpse of special relativity in action.

This Might Be the Strangest Black Hole Yet

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Devastating Crash Course

By Dan Robitzski

Chameleon Theory provides an alternative explanation for galaxy formation and the universe's expansion from Einstein's General Relativity.

New “Chameleon Theory” Could Explain Dark Energy, How Galaxies Formed

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers traced a mysterious, fleeting radio burst from space back to the galaxy from which it originated for the first time.

Astronomers Traced a Mysterious Radio Burst to a Distant Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A new set of equations can make sense of the physics behind turbulence, letting scientists better understand weather and the ways galaxies form.

New Turbulence Models Could Predict Galaxy Formation

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists generated entangled radiation using a mechanical object. They're describing it as the first step toward a quantum internet.

Scientists: Entangled Radiation May Help Build “Quantum Internet”

By Dan Robitzski

A team of French physicists claim to have created metallic hydrogen. Scientists say this experiment is more credible than past, overhyped attempts.

Scientists May Have Created Metallic Hydrogen—For Real this Time

By Dan Robitzski

A physicist came up with models that support the idea that a 2D universe could still feasibly support life, poking holes in the anthropic argument.

New Theory: A 2D Universe Could Host Living Creatures

By Dan Robitzski

A new model reveals that black holes could take in a steady stream of antimatter particles that gradually chip away until the black hole dissipates.

New Research Reveals That Black Holes Can Die

By Dan Robitzski

Not only are quantum jumps predictable, they can also be reversed, according to a new Yale study that could benefit quantum computing research.

Scientists Predict Quantum Jumps, Turning Physics on Its Head

By Kristin Houser

A mounting body of evidence suggests that spacetime is created by the properties of quantum physics, not unlike a hologram projection.

Quantum Physics

Our Reality Could Be a “Hologram” Created by Quantum Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists are using mayonnaise to study the properties of molten metal being used to create fusion reactions in the laboratory setting.

This Physicist Is Using Mayonnaise to Study Nuclear Fusion

European scientists recently tested an unfathomably powerful laser. Next year, they expect to use it to develop new cancer treatments and study supernovas.

The World’s Strongest Laser is About to Simulate a Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at LIGO just observed the gravitational waves given off by a black hole as it consumed a neutron star for the first time.

Scientists Just Detected a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have a new plan to try and spot dark matter by searching for particular particles once the Large Hadron Collider's upgrades are complete.

When the Large Hadron Collider Turns on, It May Trap Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Inspired by "Frozen," scientists built an apparatus that detects subatomic particles when they collide with supercooled water. It may help spot dark matter.

Disney’s “Frozen” Inspired New Attempt to Find Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

A distant asteroid named 6478 Gault likely fell prey to the YORP effect — sunlight caused it to spin so fast that it's ripping apart.

Astronomers Just Spotted an Asteroid Ripping Itself Apart

By Dan Robitzski

Instead, according to scientist and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, some are starting to suspect that matter and reality are complex illusions.

Physicists Are Starting to Suspect Physical Reality Is an Illusion

By Jon Christian

Every picture of the solar system shows Venus as our closest neighbor. Sure, it comes closer to Earth than any planet, but on average Mercury is closer.

Mercury Is Every Planet in the Solar System’s Closest Neighbor

By Dan Robitzski

Russian physicists, armed with a quantum computer, managed to send a single electron back in time, resetting the computer to its state from a moment earlier

Russian Scientists Used a Quantum Computer to Turn Back Time

By Dan Robitzski

A new quantum physics experiment demonstrates that objective reality may not exist. Two scientists can make irreconcilable measurements of an event.

Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics Experiment Suggests That Reality Isn’t Objective

By Dan Robitzski

New research upends the common assumption that sound waves are weightless. It turns out they carry a trace amount of mass in the form of phonons.

Sound May Be Carried by Tiny Particles With Negative Gravity

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers believe the strange behavior of galaxies could be caused by the combined mass of untold zillions of photons and not dark matter.

New Theory: Mass of Photons Could Explain Effects of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Cosmologists have long sought to reconcile differences among calculations and observations of how fast the universe is growing. A new idea may explain how.

Bizarre New Theory: Something Tampered With the Early Universe

By Dan Robitzski

A philosopher wanted to unify the various field-specific definitions physicists have for black holes. He decided that the variety was good for science.

A Philosopher Is Trying to Figure out What Black Holes Really Are

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists say a new map of how structures of dark matter have grown throughout the life of the universe could upend current understanding of physics.

New Map of Dark Matter Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of Physics

By Jon Christian

Scientists Want to Build a Space Station Inside an Asteroid

Scientists Want to Build a Space Station Inside an Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

To prevent high-energy plasma from breaking down fusion experiments, Princeton physicists built a railgun to disperse the plasma's built-up energy.

New Railgun-Like Device Stabilizes Fusion Reactions

By Dan Robitzski

Experimental nuclear fusion reactors tend to leak out high-energy particles. New computer simulations may help scientists prevent that loss of energy.

Scientists Found a New Way to Make Fusion Reactors More Efficient

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers spotted an unusual black hole floating through the galaxy. Roughly the size of Jupiter, it's in between the two types of typical black holes.

A Jupiter-Sized Black Hole is Floating Around The Milky Way

By Dan Robitzski

A small, levitating glass bead the size of a virus might be the long-awaited key to directly observing dark matter, if new research is to be believed.

A Floating, Virus-Sized Bead Could Help Find Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that it might be possible to safely approach a black hole as long as its big enough and spinning rapidly.

Physicist: Black Holes Could be Portals for Hyperspace Travel

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new theory, the Big Bang also generated a second "anti-universe" that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own.

New Theory: “Mirror Image” of Our Universe Existed Before Big Bang

By Jon Christian

According to a new essay, several companies trying to develop nuclear fusion reactors believe they're getting pretty close.

Expert: “I’m 100 Percent Confident” Fusion Power Will Be Practical

By Dan Robitzski

A new model for backwards time travel debunks one of the main reasons scientists assumed it was possible. But that doesn't make it any easier.

A New Model Debunks a Popular Argument Against Time Travel

By Dan Robitzski

A new dark matter detection study, COSINE-100, may debunk another experiment that claimed to have spotted dark matter. But the two had some key differences.

Two Nearly-Identical Dark Matter Studies Have Conflicting Results

By Dan Robitzski

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will provide the best measurements to date on dark energy's impact on the universe.

Telescope Upgrade Will Create the Most Detailed Map of the Universe Ever

By Dan Robitzski

The Large Hadron Collider was shut down for routine maintenance on Monday. Come 2021, CERN scientists will have equipped it with all new accelerators.

The Large Hadron Collider Just Shut Down

By Dan Robitzski

Next week, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) is set to meet and redefine the kilogram. It's a bizarre step forward for science.

The Metric System Is About To Get a Long-Anticipated Upgrade

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from CERN have just moved one step closer to cooling antimatter, which should make it easier for us to study the mysterious substance.

We’re Almost Able to Cool Antimatter. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.

By Kristin Houser

A number of scientifically sound studies all reached different conclusions when trying to figure out the universe's expansion rate.

Figuring out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding Might Require a New Type of Physics

By Kristin Houser

A New Trick Lets Us Weigh The Galaxy. It’s The First Step Toward Figuring Out What It’s Made Of

A New Trick Lets Us Weigh The Galaxy. It’s The First Step Toward Figuring Out What It’s Made Of

By Dan Robitzski

Cute, Brainless, Self-Propelled Robots Could Someday Move Around Inside Animals

Cute, Brainless, Self-Propelled Robots Could Someday Move Around Inside Animals

By Dan Robitzski

There’s A New Kind of Aurora on Earth, And its Name is Steve

There’s A New Kind of Aurora on Earth, And its Name is Steve

By Claudia Geib

Graphene Could Be the Superconductor Scientists Always Dreamed Of

Graphene Could Be the Superconductor Scientists Always Dreamed Of

By Chelsea Gohd

Here’s How You Could Survive Being Sucked Into a Black Hole

Here’s How You Could Survive Being Sucked Into a Black Hole

Why Do We Want To Find Neutrinos, Anyway?

Why Do We Want To Find Neutrinos, Anyway?

By Chelsea Gohd

CERN Researchers Are Planning to Trap and Truck Antimatter From One Facility to Another

CERN Researchers Are Planning to Trap and Truck Antimatter From One Facility to Another

By Chelsea Gohd

Physicists Have Made the Second-Ever Observation of Interacting Photons

Physicists Have Made the Second-Ever Observation of Interacting Photons

By Chelsea Gohd

Could We Levitate Humans With the World’s Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam?

Could We Levitate Humans With the World’s Most Powerful Acoustic Tractor Beam?

By Chelsea Gohd

A New Information Engine is Pushing the Boundaries of Thermodynamics

A New Information Engine is Pushing the Boundaries of Thermodynamics

By Chelsea Gohd

For the First Time, Physicists Accelerated Light Beams in Curved Space in the Lab

For the First Time, Physicists Accelerated Light Beams in Curved Space in the Lab

By Chelsea Gohd

How Einstein’s “Spooky Action” Could Help Secure Quantum Networks

How Einstein’s “Spooky Action” Could Help Secure Quantum Networks

By Chelsea Gohd

Scientists Are Rethinking the Very Nature of Space and Time

Scientists Are Rethinking the Very Nature of Space and Time

By Kristin Houser

New Device Lets Scientists Explore Physics Near Absolute Zero

New Device Lets Scientists Explore Physics Near Absolute Zero

By Chelsea Gohd

Scientists Have Discovered a New Form of Matter Called “Excitonium”

Scientists Have Discovered a New Form of Matter Called “Excitonium”

By Chelsea Gohd

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Scientists Experimentally Demonstrate the “Reversal of the Arrow of Time”

By Chelsea Gohd

Rippling Graphene Sheets May Be the Key to Clean, Unlimited Energy

Rippling Graphene Sheets May Be the Key to Clean, Unlimited Energy

By Chelsea Gohd

Berry curvature, as illustrated by twisting ribbons.

Physicists Take Steps Towards Measuring Unmeasurable Berry Curvature

By Chelsea Gohd

Is Dark Matter Decay Causing Antimatter to Smash into Planet Earth?

Is Dark Matter Decay Causing Antimatter to Smash into Planet Earth?

By Chelsea Gohd

In First-Ever Demonstration, Researchers Show Ultrafast Light Pulses Can Trigger Neurons to Fire

In First-Ever Demonstration, Researchers Show Ultrafast Light Pulses Can Trigger Neurons to Fire

By Chelsea Gohd

CERN Scientist on What Physicists Have Left to Discover After Higgs Boson

CERN Scientist on What Physicists Have Left to Discover After Higgs Boson

By Chelsea Gohd

Researchers Trained a Quantum Computer to Find the Higgs Boson

Researchers Trained a Quantum Computer to Find the Higgs Boson

By Chelsea Gohd

What if Our Universe is a Hologram?

What if Our Universe is a Hologram?

By Chelsea Gohd