Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance between them – the inverse square law. However, as Most ...

Einstein’s theory of relativity reveals a mind-bending truth – in the right conditions, time itself slows down. This isn’t science fiction, it’s real physics, and it could mean living far longer than ...

New study proposes using atomic clocks to probe the intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity in spacetime.

Science is a story of coming up with theories then doing our best to disprove them. That is especially true for theories on a ...

We often marvel at the genius of Albert Einstein, a physicist who revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Yet, even ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed ...

As a massive black hole located 55 million light-years from Earth, the black hole at the center of M87 has a mass equivalent ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

The speed of light, c, is not just a very large number. In modern physics it is a structural constant: the conversion factor ...

Physicist who spearheaded the construction of the LIGO observatory to detect Einstein’s predicted ripples in space-time ...

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