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For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

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

A historic violin once owned by Albert Einstein has resurfaced and sold for over $1 million, revealing a fascinating piece of ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

One of the world's most famous scientist, Albert Einstein, loved playing the violin. In fact, he started learning when he was ...

Two decades later, von Laue gifted the items to Margarete Hommrich, an Einstein admirer from Braunschweig. Her family kept ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

Astronomers spotted the celestial standoff in the heart of the galaxy OJ287, around five billion light-years from Earth.

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.