A new study suggests that influence from fermionic fields could be causing black holes to defy one of their own core rules.

Bulging waves: artist’s impression of the gravitational waves given off by the merger of two supermassive black holes. ESA’s LISA space mission may be able to detect evidence of tidal distortions in ...

In February 2016, an international team of physicists announced the first direct observation of gravitational waves. The waves had been produced by the gigantic collision of a pair of black holes, ...

Figure 1. (A) The distributions of tectonic units and earthquakes. (B) The triangles indicate positions of the seismometers. Orange triangles represent Group 1 stations situated in proximity to the ...

A better understanding of the inner workings of neutron stars will lead to a greater knowledge of the dynamics that underpin the workings of the universe and also could help drive future technology. A ...

Data from a seismometer in northern Chile has been used to analyse annual and daily stress cycles in the Earth's crust (Courtesy: C Sens-Schönfelder/GFZ) The mechanical stresses induced in natural ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Love numbers were first formulated in 1909 by British mathematician Augustus Edward Hough (A.E.H.) Love, who wanted to understand the tidal ...