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November 18, 2025

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Dark Matter Acts Surprisingly Normal in a New Cosmic Test

Nov. 16, 2025 Dark matter may be invisible, but scientists are getting closer to understanding whether it follows the same rules as everything we can see. By comparing how galaxies move through cosmic gravity wells to the depth of those wells, researchers found ...

The Universe’s First Radio Waves Could Reveal Dark Matter

Oct. 25, 2025 Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter. Studying these signals, especially from the Moon’s radio-quiet environment, could reveal how dark matter clumped together ...

A Tiny Detector Could Unveil Gravitational Waves We’ve Never Seen Before

Oct. 3, 2025 Researchers have designed a new type of gravitational wave detector that operates in the milli-Hertz range, a region untouched by current observatories. Built with optical resonators and atomic clocks, the compact detectors can fit on a lab table ...

New Insights Into Black Hole Scattering and Gravitational Waves Unveiled

May 15, 2025 A new study achieves unprecedented accuracy in modelling extreme cosmic events like black hole and neutron star collisions by calculating the fifth post-Minkowskian (5PM) order, crucial for interpreting gravitational wave data from current and ...

Astrophysicist Searches for Ripples in Space and Time in New Way

May 12, 2025 Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational ...

Bridging Worlds: Physicists Develop Novel Test of the Holographic Principle

May 7, 2025 In the quest toward finding the correct theory of quantum gravity, physicists have been testing the holographic principle which, they say, is a key property of any valid theory of quantum ...

New Theory of Gravity Brings Long-sought Theory of Everything a Crucial Step Closer

May 5, 2025 Researchers have developed a new quantum theory of gravity which describes gravity in a way that's compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved ...

Scientists Discover How Stellar-mass Black Holes Emit Powerful Plasma Jets

Apr. 21, 2025 Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black hole, jet formation ...

Technique to Manipulate Water Waves to Precisely Control Floating Objects

Mar. 12, 2025 Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a water tank to produce complex patterns, such as twisting loops and ...

Elementary-particle Detectors, 3D Printed

Mar. 11, 2025 An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics ...

Sneaky Clocks: Uncovering Einstein's Relativity in an Interacting Atomic Playground

Mar. 7, 2025 Researchers have explored the interplay between gravitational effects and quantum interactions in optical atomic clocks, revealing more about quantum entanglement in precision ...

Neural Network Deciphers Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars in a Second

Mar. 5, 2025 Binary neutron star mergers emit gravitational waves followed by light. To fully exploit these observations and avoid missing key signals, speed is crucial. An interdisciplinary team of researchers ...

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Dark Energy Might Be Changing and So Is the Universe

Nov. 9, 2025 New supercomputer simulations hint that dark energy might be dynamic, not constant, subtly reshaping the Universe’s structure. The findings align with recent DESI observations, offering the ...

Einstein Might Have Been Wrong About Black Holes

Nov. 8, 2025 Researchers are using black hole shadows to challenge Einstein’s theory of relativity. With new simulations and future ultra-sharp telescope images, they may uncover signs that his famous equations ...

A New Equation May Explain the Universe Without Dark Matter

Nov. 6, 2025 A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By rethinking gravity and cosmic timelines, it could rewrite our ...

New Evidence Suggests Einstein’s Cosmic Constant May Be Wrong

Nov. 4, 2025 Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the ...

Twin Black Hole Collisions Put Einstein’s General Relativity to Its Most Extreme Test

Oct. 30, 2025 Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window into the universe’s most ...

Einstein’s Overlooked Idea Could Explain How the Universe Really Began

Oct. 18, 2025 Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the driving force behind creation. Their simulations show that gravity and ...

Astronomers Detect a Cosmic “heartbeat” in Pulsar Signals

Oct. 15, 2025 Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves. A team from Hirosaki University suggests these signals might carry “beats” — patterns formed by ...

Black Holes Might Hold the Key to a 60-Year Cosmic Mystery

Oct. 6, 2025 Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in the universe. A team from NTNU suggests that colossal winds from ...

Black Hole Discovery Confirms Einstein and Hawking Were Right

Sep. 29, 2025 A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. Scientists tracked the complete cosmic collision, confirming that ...

The Universe’s First Magnetic Fields Were Shockingly Weak, but Changed Everything

Sep. 23, 2025 Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe. Researchers ran over ...

Neutrinos May Be the Hidden Force Behind Gold and Platinum

Sep. 21, 2025 When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, showers of radiation, and even the building blocks of gold and platinum. ...

NASA's Webb Space Telescope Just Found Strange Red Dots That Shouldn’t Exist

Sep. 14, 2025 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery ...

Black Holes Just Proved Stephen Hawking Right With the Clearest Signal Yet

Sep. 12, 2025 Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever-clearer signals, researchers are testing Einstein’s relativity and ...

Black Hole Explosion Could Change Everything We Know About the Universe

Sep. 11, 2025 Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of ...

What Came Before the Big Bang? Supercomputers May Hold the Answer

Aug. 22, 2025 Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore ...

Einstein Was Wrong: MIT Just Settled a 100-Year Quantum Debate

Aug. 2, 2025 Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the true limits of light’s wave–particle duality. Their results proved ...

Can One Vanishing Particle Shatter String Theory — and Explain Dark Matter?

July 5, 2025 Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted ...

Biggest Boom Since the Big Bang? Astronomers Record 25x Supernova Brightness

June 17, 2025 Astronomers have identified a new kind of cosmic explosion extreme nuclear transients so powerful they outshine typical supernovae by orders of magnitude and stay bright for years. Triggered when ...

Chip-Based System for Terahertz Waves Could Enable More Efficient, Sensitive Electronics

Feb. 20, 2025 Researchers developed a low-cost, scalable terahertz amplifier that could be used to make antenna arrays that can steer and focus high-frequency terahertz waves, for applications like high-resolution ...

First Detection of an Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino

Feb. 12, 2025 Scientists have just detected a neutrino that is thirty times more energetic than any previously detected anywhere in the world. This exceptional discovery opens up new perspectives for understanding ...

New Diagnostic Tool Will Help LIGO Hunt Gravitational Waves

Jan. 30, 2025 Researchers have demonstrated a new, unsupervised machine learning approach to find new patterns in the auxiliary channel data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...

This Quasar May Have Helped Turn the Lights on for the Universe

Jan. 15, 2025 Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...

Physicists 'Bootstrap' Validity of String Theory

Dec. 17, 2024 String theory remains elusive as a 'provable' phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical ...

Evidence of Primordial Black Holes May Be Hiding in Planets, or Even Everyday Objects Here on Earth

Dec. 2, 2024 A theoretical study suggests that small black holes born in the early universe may have left behind hollow planetoids and microscopic tunnels, and that we should start looking within rocks and old ...

Most Energetic Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons Ever Observed

Nov. 25, 2024 Scientists have recently identified electrons and positrons with the highest energies ever recorded on Earth. They provide evidence of cosmic processes emitting colossal amounts of energy, the ...

Research on Gravity in Line With Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

Nov. 20, 2024 Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster across 11 billion years of cosmic history. Their observations line up with what Einstein's ...

Einstein's Equations Collide With the Mysteries of the Universe

Nov. 11, 2024 Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

Astrophysicists Use Echoes of Light to Illuminate Black Holes

Nov. 7, 2024 Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to be measured, ...

Black Hole Pairs May Unveil New Particles

Sep. 17, 2024 In a new paper, physicists argue that close observations of merging black hole pairs may unveil information about potential new ...

Physics Team Electrifies the Quantum World

Sep. 16, 2024 Researchers have developed a method to model a central theory of quantum gravity in the laboratory. Their goal: to decipher previously unexplained phenomena in the quantum ...