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Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a surprising alignment in the spin directions of ancient galaxies, challenging ...

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

LOFAR detects a faint radio 'mini-halo' from 3.8 billion years ago, revealing how galaxy clusters evolved in the early ...