The first-ever detection of gravitational waves was made 10 years ago today (Sept. 14). In celebration, Space.com takes you ...

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

Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have made a bold prediction: there is a more than 90 percent probability that our telescopes could witness a black hole explode within the next 10 ...

A new study suggests that primordial black holes (PBHs)—hypothetical remnants from the early universe—might be on the verge ...

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

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

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

Superfluid helium reveals a manageable analog to the Schwinger effect. It deepens understanding of vortices and quantum ...

Life on Earth may have been shaped and formed on a distant planet, according to a new theory that may change our view of the ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...