The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.
Explore the elusive graviton, a potential quantum particle of gravity. This video investigates its existence and role in unifying physics' two major theories. Learn how physicists attempt to quantize gravity, despite significant challenges.
What are the fundamental physical constants and what determines their value?
Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.
First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe
As powerful as the Large Hadron Collider is, it does have one blind spot: long-lived neutral particles that can slip through the detector before they're found. Coming up soon is an upgrade, called MATHUSLA, that hopes to change that.
Studies of exotic materials called “strange metals” point to a whole new way to understand electricity
Ripples in spacetime? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Harrison Greenbaum explore black hole collisions, quantum tricks, and how gravitational waves can help us uncover the early universe with MIT physicist and LIGO researcher Nergis Mavalvala.
An international team of astronomers unveiled the most compelling evidence to date that dark energy — a mysterious phenomenon pushing our universe to expand ever faster — is not a constant force of nature but one that ebbs and flows through time.
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