A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

Hungarian writer and Nobel Prize for Literature 2025 winner László Krasznahorkai, known for his lyrical and tragicomic novels ...

Astronomers have flagged a distant stellar object so extreme that, on paper, it should not exist. Its mass, brightness and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Big Bang Theory‘s Sheldon Cooper is the last character anyone would expect to celebrate ...

Steven S. Kaufman Family Anatomy of a Trial Lecture Series In this second installment of the Steven S. Kaufman Family Anatomy of a Trial Lecture Series, litigator John K. Villa—described by The ...

A long-standing challenge in physics has been to integrate gravity into the Standard Model, which successfully describes the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces. The difficulty lies in the ...

Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible. In a pie chart of the contents of the universe, only 5 percent is normal matter, atoms that make up all ...

British archaeologists recently found the remnants of a 17th-century house where Isaac Newton’s mother lived – not far from the site of his famous apple tree. The National Trust announced in a recent ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation ...