Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of ...
Right at the brink of a black hole, gravity twists space and time so violently that ordinary physics starts to fall apart.
When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...
In a remarkable breakthrough published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of astronomers using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has finally answered a ...
An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...