In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Doctor in Physics, specialist in active galaxies and supermassive black holes, she is a researcher at the Center for ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used by astronomers and physicists ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

After the Grant building discontinued its use as a library, it served various departments on campus. The College of Biology ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

For two decades, scientists believed the cosmological constant, known as λ (lambda), was positive. That meant the Universe ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...