Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." ...

A team of researchers from TU Dortmund University, the University of Paderborn, and the University of Nottingham has ...

A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of ...

One of the most surprising findings was the discovery of Calabi-Yau three-fold periods—geometric structures traditionally ...

By using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), scientists were ... yet to answer, this new detection fills in a gap in black hole knowledge for scientists studying ...

If two of those objects -- like the huge black holes that created ... scientists to "chirp" for LIGO on video ahead of the first announcement in 2016. While this detection may not be quite as ...

International team calculates observable quantities such as scattering angle and emitted energy with unrivalled precision.

Such interactions between black holes or neutron stars (compact ... In the years since LIGO’s initial detection, two additional major gravitational-wave observatories, Europe’s Virgo and ...