Tag: gravity

Seismic waves from a big quake are easy to see—think of the classic image of a seismograph, pencil scratching out ...

Even the strongest gravitational waves that pass through the planet, created by the distant collisions of black holes, only stretch ...

We’ve known about gravity since Newton’s apocryphal encounter with the apple, but we’re still struggling to make sense of it. ...

Stuff falls all the time. Maybe you’ve dropped a ball. Perhaps that cup of coffee slipped out of your hands. ...

So what if, instead of launching atop a chemical rocket, your object could just ride up on a cable that ...

There's actually another good reason to use infrared light for the JWST: It's difficult to get an unobstructed view of ...

Three years ago, Filippo Fraternali and his colleagues spotted a half dozen mysteriously diffuse galaxies, which looked like sprawling cities ...

Sometimes the universe is just too complicated to analyze.Heck, if you take a tennis ball and toss it across the ...

Think of this plot in terms of area. The area on the graph covered by the blue data (to hit ...

The first detection of gravitational waves in 2016 provided decisive confirmation of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. But another astounding ...