For all its imperfection, the EU still represents the best chance for regional peace and stability – little wonder Ukraine wants to join.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity suggests that our universe originated in a Big Bang. But black holes, and their gravitational forces, challenge the limits of Einstein’s work.
The darkness of the night sky seems so obvious as to need no explanation – yet it has intrigued and baffled scientists for centuries.
If there are infinite stars – where is all the light?
Cosmologists have detected a long sought component in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which will help us to further…
Humans have always had a deep affinity with the night sky. Over millennia the stars have guided us in our travels, provided a grand canvas for the great stories of mythology and invoked a sense of wonder…
Astronomers have spotted the earliest known stars in the universe, belonging to a class of chemically pure stars that may never have been seen before.
According to cosmologists, galaxies are joined together by filaments, quite literally. These filaments form the cosmic web and are made of mostly dark matter, many stars and some gas. Observing these filaments…
The multiverse has been the topic of multiple recent films, such as Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Everything Everywhere All At Once: but what does science know about the multiverse?
Research casts doubt on theories predicting that light black holes formed immediately after the Big Bang.
