Universe's oldest known quasar discovered 13 billion light-years away By Tim Childers published 9 March 21 Astronomers have found the farthest known source of radio emissions in the universe: a galaxy-swallowing supermassive black hole.
Lab-grown black hole analog behaves just like Stephen Hawking said it would By Tim Childers published 2 March 21 Like mad scientists, researchers are creating miniature black holes in their laboratories. Their mission? To see if a mysterious form of radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking exists.
Astronomers find the fastest spinning black hole to date By Tim Childers published 22 February 21 The first black hole ever discovered just put on a lot of mass, and it has astronomers confused.
Cosmic bubbles may have forged dark matter, new theory suggests By Tim Childers published 3 November 20 New theory suggests cosmic bubbles during the birth of our universe are responsible for creating dark matter.
Physicists entangle 15 trillion hot atoms By Tim Childers published 8 June 20 Physicists set a new record by linking together a hot soup of 15 trillion atoms in a bizarre phenomenon called quantum entanglement.
Is life a gamble? Scientist models universe to find out By Tim Childers published 21 April 20 Scientist finds life in the universe could be common, but we may never find it.
What is epidemiology? By Tim Childers published 25 March 20 Learn how these disease detectives save lives by studying and preventing the spread of the worst bugs and diseases.
Physicists link quantum memories across the longest distance ever By Tim Childers published 5 March 20 We're one step closer to having quantum internet, but wait, what is quantum internet?
What is ocean acidification? By Tim Childers published 5 February 20 The global increase in carbon dioxide emissions is not only warming our planet at an alarming rate, but it's also making our oceans more acidic.
Identity-Switching Neutrinos Could Reveal Why We Exist At All. But Can We Find Them? By Tim Childers published 21 January 20 Scientists are searching for a ghostly neutrino particle that acts as its own antiparticle. If they find it, the discovery could resolve a cosmic conundrum: Why does matter exist at all?
Physicists Just Created the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe in History By Tim Childers published 19 November 19 An international team of scientists has created the most detailed large-scale model of the universe to date, a simulation they call TNG50.
We May Finally Understand the Moments Before the Big Bang By Tim Childers published 11 November 19 Physicists may have solved a decades-long mystery about how our universe came to be.
Google's Quantum Computer Just Aced an 'Impossible' Test By Tim Childers published 24 October 19 For the first time, a quantum computer has solved a task that Google says would be impossible for the most advanced supercomputers in the world.
Einstein's Theory Predicts a Weird State of Matter. Could It Be Lurking in the World's Largest Atom Smasher? By Tim Childers published 24 September 19 This mysterious matter was predicted from Einstein's theory of special relativity, but physicists can't seem to find it!
Right Again, Einstein! Wobbling Pulsar Confirms General Relativity By Tim Childers published 10 September 19 A pulsar 25,000 light-years away is wobbling in a weird way. But Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted it more than a century ago.
'Einstein's Biggest Blunder' May Have Finally Been Fixed By Tim Childers published 6 September 19 The cosmological constant has plagued physicists for more than a century.
What's the Difference Between Asteroids, Comets and Meteors? By Tim Childers published 4 September 19 Look! Up in the sky! It's an asteroid.... No, it's a comet.... Wait, it's neither?
Astronomers Create 8 Million Baby Universes Inside a Computer and Watch Them Grow. Here's What They Learned. By Tim Childers published 22 August 19 "UniverseMachine" churns out millions of unique universes to study dark matter and the evolution of galaxies.
A Tiny Magma Blob May Rewrite Earth's History of Plate Tectonics By Tim Childers published 7 August 19 An International team of scientists finds evidence that Earth began recycling itself more than 3 billion years ago.
If Aliens Are Flashing Laser Beams at Us, We Now Have a Way to Detect Them By Tim Childers published 2 August 19 Are aliens using super powerful flashlights to get our attention? Astronomers think there's a chance they are.
