By: Karla Lant/Futurism New analysis of data from the ESO’s VLT and other telescopes reveals stars orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way exhibit relativity effects. Future analysis may reveal more support for relativity and new physics. NEW OBSERVATIONS Scientists have applied new analytical techniques to data gleaned from the European Southern Observatory’s…
Life Is Inevitable Consequence Of Physics, According To New Research
By: Robin Andrews/IFLScience A few years back, a remarkable new hypothesis made its way into the scientific zeitgeist – namely, that life is an inevitable consequence of physics. The author of this concept, an associate professor of biophysics at MIT named Jeremy England, has now published the first major papers testing out this idea, and…
Gravitational Waves Are Permanently Warping The Fabric of Space-Time
By: Mike Mcrae/Science Alert This could reveal strange new physics. Researchers have proposed a method for detecting exotic events in physics by looking for the scars they leave behind on the fabric of space.By identifying how objects like cosmic strings or evaporating black holes leave behind memories of their existence on the Universe, it might…
Stephen Hawking And 32 Top Physicists Just Signed A Heated Letter On The Universe’s Origin
By: Fiona Macdonald/Science Alert For centuries, people have puzzled over how our Universe began. But the heat just got turned way up on a debate that’s quietly been raging between cosmologists, with 33 of the world’s most famous physicists publishing a letter angrily defending one of the leading hypotheses we have for the origin of the Universe. The letter…