"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, effectively, one gigantic, very cold star." ...

The most exciting yet controversial possibility traces back to a theory proposed by British physicist Stephen Hawking in 1971: that black holes originated from the primordial soup of the Big Bang. If ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...

Researchers using LIGO have confirmed that black holes get bigger when they merge, offering strong support for Stephen Hawking's theory.

Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a ...

Ripples in spacetime sent hurtling through the universe when two black holes smash into each other -- a phenomenon predicted ...

Physicist who spearheaded the construction of the LIGO observatory to detect Einstein’s predicted ripples in space-time ...

Launch: The Max Planck–IAS–NTU Center (MPC) was officially inaugurated on September 1, 2025, in Taipei, Taiwan. A highlight of the ceremony was the formal exchange of the agreement, signed by Claudia ...

While Max Planck is rightly celebrated as the father of quantum theory, his scientific curiosity didn’t stop there. He was a physicist who really dug into the nitty-gritty of how the universe works, ...

Researchers from Germany, Taiwan, and the United States join forces to unlock the mysteries of the Universe's origin and structureTheories describing ...

According to this theory, after reaching an extremely small size, the remnants formed have a mass of approximately 20.94 grams, clearly at the Planck scale, where quantum effects dominate gravity. The ...