About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed like a contradiction in Albert Einstein's theory of ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

A mysterious black hole is pointing at Earth sending an intense ... This would have sent energy shooting through the universe and straight towards Earth. But the light came from incredibly far ...

Black holes are places in the universe where gravity ... new theory suggests So we can rule out the possibility that a black hole swallowed Earth at some point in its history; it would have ...

Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a simple pencil-and-paper geometry exercise. To ...

Astronomers have determined the source of an incredibly bright X-ray, optical and radio signal appearing from halfway across the Universe ... jet may be pointing directly toward Earth, making ...

Languages: English, Spanish An extremely high-energy jet of matter shot out of a supermassive black hole billions of light-years away is pointed at Earth, astronomers have found. The discovery was ...

In a universe ... ruled out, physicists report in the April 26 Physical Review Letters. On a shape with boring, or trivial topology, any closed path you draw can be shrunk down to a point.

Gamma-ray bursts reveal largest structure in the universe is bigger and closer to Earth than we knew: 'The jury is still out on what it ... into an infinitely tiny point known as the singularity ...