Many theories are rock-solid: Scientists have just as much confidence in the theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, ...

Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes, LIGO has confirmed ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

The researchers employed a specific theoretical framework related to string theory to calculate the changes in these vibrations as black holes approach their 'limits.' The results indicate that as ...

Einstein’s theory of special relativity tells us that for a moving object, time passes more slowly than for a stationary ...

New views of two colliding black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking using Albert Einstein’s theory.

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

An eon ago, when only microbes dwelled on Earth, a pair of black holes some 1.3 billion light-years beyond the solar system ...

The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and ...

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...