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

UMass Amherst physicists predict a primordial black hole explosion within ten years, an event that could confirm Hawking ...

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At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

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For decades, physicists have suspected that black holes might not last forever—that at the very end of their lives, they ...

"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, effectively, one gigantic, very cold star." ...

(Main image) Theoretical illustration of a 'black hole star' (Illustration) JWST (Image credit: T. Müller/A. de Graaff/Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) ...

Because physicists from the University of Massachusetts have just brought us a groundbreaking new discovery— there's a 90% chance we will see a black hole explosion in the next decade! You heard it ...

From early experiments with lanterns to Einstein’s revelations about space and time, the speed of light has proven to be far ...