The first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...

From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange ...

To start, there are the usual suspects, like electrons, protons, quarks and neutrinos. But if those particles aren't strange ...

The jet emerging from M87’s supermassive black hole is tens of millions of times larger than its event horizon. In 2019, the ...

Harnessing this energy could make voyages to the outer reaches of the Solar System — or even to neighboring stars — feasible ...

Antimatter was initially discovered in 1932 when physicist Carl David Anderson observed positrons—the antimatter form of an electron—in cosmic rays by passing them through a cloud chamber. He won the ...

Scientists are exploring the possibilities of antimatter propulsion as they try to achieve interstellar travel. While ...

An undergraduate student in physics at The University of Texas at Arlington earned a top award from the Texas Section of the American Physical Society (APS) for his research using positrons—the ...

Key takeawaysThe galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon ...