Penzias and Wilson were awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery. More recently, experiments at particle ...

New research has unveiled a previously unacknowledged effect of Einstein’s relativity theory similar to time dialtion and ...

Leonard and Sheldon might be the most unlikely to find a girlfriend or get a date, but real-life counterparts Johnny Galecki ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a hot, dense point, expanding into the cosmos we observe today.

A low-mass supermassive black hole appears to be consuming matter at over 40 times the theoretical limit. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered LID-568, a supermassive black hole ...

The light from this object has traveled all the way from a time 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Earlier supermassive black holes have been discovered – but none of them can hold a candle to this ...

Astronomers may have uncovered tantalising evidence linking dark energy—the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion—to black holes. Dark energy makes up about 70% of the ...

Scientists believe that about 14 billion years ago, during the Big Bang, an unidentified energy made the universe expand ...