A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

Just 570 million years after the Big Bang, a young, compact galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 appears to host a supermassive black ...

Why did Ramanujan’s formulae stay relevant for a century? His set of 17 expressions offered huge speed. They gave long digit ...

Ramanujan's pi-computing machinery exactly mirrors the necessary structure in modern physical theories (LCFTs).

The director of “Hamnet” says that her art has been shaped by her early love of manga, her relationship to the natural world, ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

Some of the brightest beacons in the universe share one hidden engine: matter falling into a black hole. As gas whirls inward ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

A rare confluence of factors makes the Atacama an ideal home for some of the world’s biggest astronomical projects – dry ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...