Most physicists believe that our universe began with a Big Bang. But how did the laws of nature – for example, the strength of gravity, the speed of light, and the stre ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

Scientists described for the first time the creation of regular black holes from gravitational effects and without the need ...

A European space telescope captured a rare halo of light that circles a galaxy that is 590 million light-years away, which is ...

Many think the reason why women give birth on their backs is because of King Louis XVI, but there's more to the story than ...

Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...

Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...

Scientists have discovered a new way to probe the interiors of neutron stars by using gravitational waves to turn them into ...

Euclid, a space telescope on a mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, has already made a stunning ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...