Researchers at the University of Sheffield have published a study suggesting that black hole could undergo a transition into its theoretical counterpart, a white hole. Black holes possess such immense ...

So yeah, the Warhammer 40,000 setting has galaxy crushing might under its belt. But, it seems, the various races of the 41st ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within a century. Led by astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi, the mission would test the ...

Biggish bang: false colour X-ray image of the remnant of Tycho’s type Ia supernova, which was observed in 1572. New research suggests that such supernovae can be ignited by primordial black holes.

Until recently, scientists had never detected black holes in the “mass gap”—now, particle physicists are exploring ideas beyond the Standard Model that could explain them. On May 21, 2019, a ripple in ...

The contributions of the three Nobel laureates proved that black holes exist and unveiled the nature of these supermassive objects. © Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas ...

Black holes sit on the cusp of the unknowable. Anything that crosses a black hole’s threshold is lost forever, trapped by an extreme gravitational pull. That enigmatic quality makes the behemoths an ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their discoveries about black holes. This year’s prize was about “the darkest secrets ...

The physics department celebrated Black in Physics Week for the first time with a mix of in-person and virtual events during the week of Oct. 24–30. Black in Physics Week began inOctober 2020 with the ...

Many universities haven't awarded a degree to a Black physics graduate in decades. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In both her ...

At the entrance to my lab’s clean room, I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror: I look like a clown. I’m drowning in a disposable coverall that hangs off of me in droopy folds, and my size 7½ feet ...