New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detects two black hole mergers with rare spin patterns, offering evidence for hierarchical formation and ...

A pair of distant cosmic black hole mergers, measured just one month apart, is improving how scientists understand the formation and evolution of the ...

Albert Einstein changed science forever with special and general relativity, redefining space, time, and gravity. Yet after ...

In the 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves, we have detected hundreds of these waves produced by the ...

Anil Chaturvedi delves into the fascinating world of time travel, connecting it with Einstein’s groundbreaking theories of ...

About 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series featured a technology called a “warp drive,” which allowed space travel at speeds much faster than light. Theoretical physicist and philosopher Albert ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

The law, though, doesn’t say the first to arrive is the first to go; that’s an interpretation of the law. Instead, it says ...

Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...