When we go backwards in time through the history of the cosmos, the distances and volumes shrink, while the average energy ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

New research has unveiled a previously unacknowledged effect of Einstein’s relativity theory similar to time dialtion and ...

The theory of special relativity is rife with counterintuitive and surprising effects, the most famous of which are length ...

Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is like an immensely powerful kitchen, designed to cook up some of the rarest and hottest ...

Event display showing a lead-lead collision in the ALICE, CMS and LHCb detectors. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is like an ...

As the nuclei collide with each other the temperature can be raised to about 5 trillion degrees Celsius (°C), whereby the components of the nucleus c– protons and neutrons – are broken down into ...

The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a hot, dense point, expanding into the cosmos we observe today.