An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the most massive and unusual structures in the ...

At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...

Two African science journalists – Paul Adepoju and Mkhululi Chimoio – have won the “ Quantum Pitch Competition ”, organized by Physics World and Physics Magazine to mark the International Year of ...

At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole hides behind veils of dust, gas, and warped spacetime. Now a ...

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

The Detroit Tigers came into the offseason with one pressing question. Were they going to part ways with two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal? While talks intensified throughout the winter, ...

The physics of the spiral pass have baffled physicists and football fans for decades. EMILY KWONG, HOST: ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

Child’s play Nurseries or daycare centres can be a breeding ground for bugs and germs. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Monkey Business Images) When I had two kids going through daycare, or nursery as we call ...