Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2019, LIGO and Virgo detected GW190521—a mysterious gravitational wave that could mark either the colossal merger of two black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in the prehistoric days of theoretical astrophysics (1985), in a mystical and exotic corner of planet Earth (Fresno, ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, ...

Chinese researchers are poring over a puzzling gravitational wave signal that appears to defy the standard script of black hole collisions, reviving one of physics’ most audacious possibilities: that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A wormhole in nature (for select values of “nature,” of course) might be a similarly higher-dimensional shape that does not act the same when ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that lasted just one-tenth of a second. The signal, known as ...

Back in the prehistoric days of theoretical astrophysics (1985), in a mystical and exotic corner of planet Earth (Fresno, California), a man sat in the back of a car and tried to break the spacetime ...