For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...

Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw helped popularize the phrase “Agenda-setting theory.” Following the publication of the Chapel ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

For more than two decades, astronomers have wrestled with one of the biggest mysteries in science: what is driving the ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

Gravitational waves shake the very fabric of the universe when black holes collide. Today we measure these events and use them to understand the ...

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

Neuroaesthetics is a relatively young field of research, aiming primarily to explain the phenomena that affect the perception ...

Stephen Hawking's and Albert Einstein’s predictions have finally been proved right after a 'black hole collision'. In January this year, astronomers spotted two black holes colliding into one another ...

Is time something that flows — or just an illusion? Exploring space-time as either a fixed “block universe” or a dynamic fabric reveals deeper mysteries about existence, change, and the very nature of ...

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...