Black holes are some of the strangest and most powerful objects in the universe, and for all our advances in […] ...

N obody does it better than supermassive black hole J2245+3743. It is a bright, active galactic nucleus (AGN), with a mass ...

Google Quantum AI’s new research revives a 1960s concept of “quantum money,” potentially eliminating the need for blockchain ...

Vincenzo Savona, head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems. 2025 EPFL/Murielle Gerber- CC-BY-SA 4.0 ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality ...

AI focuses on learning patterns from data to make decisions; quantum computing focuses on raw computational power for complex problems like molecular simulation and code-breaking.

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international team of researchers found that the beams were narrow and nearly parallel, ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

The new research presented in Physical Review Letters explains the complex process that requires not just energy to escape, but also tight maneuvering through a quantum door. Despite its widespread ...