New multiscale simulations help crack long-standing mysteries behind the enormous radio arcs generated when galaxy clusters ...
The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...
Based on these initial findings, the team further developed extremely high-resolution simulations called "shock-tubes." ...
In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...
A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed up by a pulp-era sci-fi writer. Which, ...
A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...
New simulations reveal how galaxy cluster collisions create ghostly radio relics. Turbulence and shock compression amplify ...
A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...
Unexplained gamma ray radiation coming from the edge of the Milky Way galaxy could be produced by self-annihilating dark matter particles – but the idea requires further investigation ...
New data reveals black hole jets can accelerate at speeds defying all physical laws, leaving astronomers without a clear ...
For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...
Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of ...