Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...

Ferreira and Alexander Roskill from the University of Oxford's Department of Astrophysics have recently proposed a cold dark matter model that is based on very few parameters yet can accurately ...

A $4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation enables a team of scholars from USC, the University of California, ...

Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

Illuminating the Dark. Mysterious dark matter and neutrinos, formed moments after the Big Bang, are the focus of a new ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare group of five dwarf galaxies located relatively close to Earth; these galaxies exist in a near-perfect alignment, resembling a string of cosmic pearls in the sky.

Matrix models have emerged as a powerful framework in theoretical physics, offering a nonperturbative approach to describing quantum space-time. In these models, fundamental degrees of freedom are ...