Astronomers report how a "death by a thousand blows" caused a galaxy in the early universe to stop forming stars, making it ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

A starship driven by a captive black hole sounds like pure science fiction, yet the underlying physics is brutally literal. A ...

The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

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

For decades, black holes have stood as the most enigmatic objects in the universe, defying our understanding of space, time, and matter. Yet, some physicists propose an even more mind-bending idea: ...

We’ve had quantum science on our minds all year long, courtesy of 2025 being UNESCO’s International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. But according to theoretical work by Partha Ghose and ...

A 'boom' of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium could, in other contexts, signal a ...

A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...

By inserting tiny imperfections into the stones, scientists open up possibilities in computing, encryption and sensors ...

John O’Dowd “to press Treasury to allow us to repay any overspend over a longer period to minimise the detrimental impact” ...