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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 controversial theory suggests the observable universe is the result of matter rebounding after the collapse of a black hole ...

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 ...

About 60 per cent of the galaxies seemed to rotate clockwise. That contradicts the theory that galaxy rotations are random.

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

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

The universe may not have begun with the Big Bang as is generally thought but from the collapse of a massive black hole, a new theory suggests. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...