Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe. It neither emits nor absorbs light, making it invisible ...

A theory that unites quantum mechanics and general relativity claims that there was no first moment in time, but it still agrees with the predictions of classical cosmology. It's in the stars One of ...

Physicists from around the country converged at UC Santa Barbara for two days of talks and camaraderie in memory of esteemed physicist Professor Jim Hartle, one of four cofounders of the campus’s ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Quantum cosmology and loop quantum gravity constitute two intertwined pillars in the quest for a quantum theory of gravity. Quantum cosmology applies the principles of quantum mechanics to the entire ...

A pair of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Russia recently proposed an entirely new view of the cosmos. Their research takes the wacky idea that we’re living in a ...

Where did the universe come from? Where is it headed? Answering these ­questions requires that we understand physics on two vastly different scales: the cosmological, referring to the realm of galaxy ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. At first glance, the video seems like an ordinary news recap. “So today the Nobel Prize in Physics was ...