The early modern physicist Isaac Newton had presumed an unperceived yet real flow of time. To Newton, time is a dynamic ...

A black hole can feel like the most distant and unreal object you could ever think about, yet the way its darkness bends ...

Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...

Recent advancements in observational techniques have led to the capture of high-resolution images of black hole shadows, ...

General Relativity, Einstein’s revolutionary theory of gravity, reinterprets gravitational interactions as phenomena emerging from the curvature of spacetime rather than as forces in the traditional ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

An international team led by Japanese researchers has made a 3D map of 3000 galaxies 13 billion light years from Earth, and found that Einstein’s general theory of relativity is still valid. Since it ...

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

If you asked an astrophysicist what is yet to be discovered in the universe, there’s a good chance they’d paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: It’s full of known unknowns. Besides the regular matter and energy ...

Physicists have developed a method to test Einstein's general relativity using black hole shadow images, potentially revealing different types of black holes.