At BYU, Nobel Prize-winning modern Galileo talks about his work that helped prove Einstein right about gravitational waves

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...
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The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Seen Was So Rare, It Seemed Impossible. Now, Astrophysicists May Finally Have an Explanation

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

Einstein Tested Again: New Gamma-Ray Study Pushes Physics to Its Limits

Physicists have demonstrated with unprecedented accuracy that the speed of light remains constant. In 1887, a landmark physics experiment was carried out by American researchers Michelson and Morley.
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Two stars spiraling toward catastrophe are putting Einstein's gravity to the test

The two stars in the nearby system ZTF J2130 are spiraling toward a catastrophic supernova. In the meantime, scientists are ...