Scientists propose that gravitational waves shaped the universe. Their model challenges inflation theory. How exactly did the universe start, and how did these processes determine its formation and ...

Neutrino oscillation is weird, but it may be weird in a useful way, because it might allow physicists to probe certain ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be ...

We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." ...

Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect ...

Superfluid helium reveals a manageable analog to the Schwinger effect. It deepens understanding of vortices and quantum tunneling. In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger proposed that applying a constant ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...