WUWM astronomy contributor Jean Creighton discusses cosmology ahead of "Birth of the Universe" at UWM's Manfred Olson ...
A decades-old idea is quietly regaining attention in theoretical physics: ancient structures embedded in the universe’s ...
The same strange ingredient that might stitch together spacetime could also be humming inside your head. Physicists and neuroscientists are increasingly flirting with the idea that the universe and ...
Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...
A team of researchers studying the uncertainties associated with a phenomenon known as cosmic birefringence has developed a method to reduce uncertainties in its observational measurements, according ...
A newly identified quasar shows sustained growth beyond the Eddington limit, prompting new examination of accretion physics, radiation trapping and jet activity in early supermassive black holes.
Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...
New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions ...
Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.