The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting effect on human bodies.

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

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Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

In 2019, researchers detected gravitational waves that indicated that two black holes were merging. These were two fairly ...

Learn how a newly detected gamma-ray halo in the Milky Way could mark the first direct glimpse of dark matter.

Scientists have captured the first-ever direct evidence for dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up more than a ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.