It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than bananas. The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and ...
The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...
A revolutionary new model, gaining traction among physicists, suggests our entire universe might be a vast, expanding black hole that emerged from the collapse of a larger, older "parent" universe.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on Earth, in our solar system, our galaxy, and beyond is contained within ...
String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...