In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive ...

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

Plasma is a state of matter that emerges when a gas is heated to sufficiently high temperatures, prompting some electrons to become free from atoms. This state of matter has been the focus of many ...

Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...

In 1956, physicist David Pines theorized the existence of a massless, neutral plasmon called a “demon” that could help ...

The most energetic cosmic neutrino, or "ghost particle," ever recorded may be the remnants of a nearby black hole explosion.

Scientists propose a bold new dark matter candidate: the superheavy, charged gravitino, detectable in experiments like JUNO ...

The strong nuclear force may abruptly loosen its grip on the fundamental particles that make up matter at a special “critical ...

A precise electric field technique prints single quantum dots one at a time, enabling scalable arrays of quantum light ...

Scientists have created the world's hottest engine running at temperatures hotter than those reached in the sun's core. The ...