In the decades since Maldacena proposed the idea, physicists have used this power to address questions about whether black holes destroy information, to better understand an early epoch in the ...

The new data seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is negative, and that the universe will end in a Big Crunch,” ...

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the University of Tokyo and other institutions have begun a wide-area survey of the distribution of dark matter in the universe using ...

Neutrinos are among the universe’s most abundant yet least understood particles. They possess tiny masses and almost never ...

“We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." reading time 2 minutes It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole ...

How hot is the Universe today? How hot was it before? A new study by an international team of researchers, including members of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe ...

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...