Physics

Thanks to the power of fluctuation relations, physicists are taking the second law of thermodynamics to settings once thought impossible.

Physicists are using quantum math to understand what happens when black holes collide. In a surprise, they’ve shown that a single particle can describe a collision’s entire gravitational wave.

Physicists are devising clever new ways to exploit the extreme sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. But so far, they’ve seen no signs of exotica.

The noted mathematician and author Steven Strogatz explains how the conversations with experts in his new Quanta Magazine podcast address his lifelong fascination with timeless mysteries.

An experiment conducted on hybrid matter-antimatter atoms has defied researchers’ expectations.

Dwarf galaxies weren’t supposed to have big black holes. Their surprise discovery has revealed clues about how the universe’s biggest black holes could have formed.

Physicists are reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.

When astronomers tried to confirm a signal from the birth of the first stars after the Big Bang, they saw nothing.

Celia Escamilla-Rivera is combining large data sets with supercomputers to test general relativity against its little-known competitors.