Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.

Exactly 100 years ago, famed Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (yes, the cat guy) postulated his eponymous equation that ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

The vastness of the cosmos hides more than distant stars—it conceals the very forces that shape reality. Astronomers have ...

That is, until now. In a groundbreaking scientific experiment, a team at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of ...

The images, which show interactions between free-range particles that had only been theorized until now, will reportedly ...