Why Information, Not Matter, May Be the True Foundation of Reality - Rethinking Reality Through Physics, Information, ...

A new theoretical proposal argues that the massive object sitting at the center of our galaxy may not be a black hole at all, but rather a dense clump of fermionic dark matter with no event horizon.

It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

Historian Philip Decker, mathematician Victor Geadah, computer scientist Sayash Kapoor, and literary scholar Eliana Rozinov are this year’s Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellows.

Are we living in a simulated reality? If so, it has to be economically viable for whoever is running the machines.

Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, ...

The icy buildups blocking crosswalks around New York have been dubbed sneckdowns. Some urbanists think they offer a vision of ...

Gravitational lensing is a phenomenon caused by massive objects bending the fabric space-time around them due to the impact ...

A newly detected X-ray transient may reveal the first direct evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole consuming a white dwarf. A newly observed cosmic outburst is giving astronomers a rare glimpse ...

The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around supermassive black holes.

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep ...

Scientists have discovered that active supermassive black holes don't just kill their home galaxies, but can also eradicate star formation for their neighbors.