The most exciting yet controversial possibility traces back to a theory proposed by British physicist Stephen Hawking in 1971: that black holes originated from the primordial soup of the Big Bang. If ...

On September 11, the Shanghai Bund Conference officially opened. At the opening ceremony and main forum, 2024 Turing Award ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

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At the Max Planck–IAS–NTU Center for Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Geometry researchers from Germany, Taiwan, and the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

Raul Rocha and Anne Jakrajutatip with Victoria Kjær Theilvig, who was crowned this year's Miss Universe on Saturday.Hector Vivas/Getty Images Miss Universe CEO Anne Jakrajutatip said the pageant no ...