The Latest Breaking News from Albert Einstein

The universe has a way of keeping us humble—every time scientists think they’ve figured out how reality works, space pops in with a cosmic plot twist. One moment we’re convinced we understand gravity, galaxies, and the overall vibe of the cosmos, and the next we discover something that tosses our…

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In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally explains how this "forbidden" black hole came to be, and what it can teach us about these extreme objects.

Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, may not be the best recipe to describe black holes.

“Time flies,” “time waits for no one,” “as time goes on”: The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out there in the world. We inhabit the present moment and move through time, even as…

The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may tell us more about how galaxies form.

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Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing evidence that rare "second-generation" black holes were involved.

Gravitational wave detectors on Earth have heard the "cry" of two newborn black holes with some unusual and remarkable properties.