A team of astrophysicists at the University of Portsmouth have created the largest ever map of voids and superclusters in the universe, which helps solve a long-standing cosmological mystery. The map ...

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters Hot and cold: voids (left) and ...

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect. Matt von Hippel The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes.

An enormous supercluster made up from over 20 individual galaxy clusters hiding behind our dusty Milky Way is even larger than astronomers had thought, affecting the motion through space of all the ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) led by Dr. Istvan Szapudi has found direct evidence for the existence of “dark energy.” Dark energy works against the ...

The Milky Way galaxy was long thought to be a member of the Virgo supercluster, a complex, twisting branch containing more than 100 individual galaxy groups and clusters stretching for more than a ...

Using a map of more than 4,000 luminous quasars in the distant universe, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) have shown that these brilliant beacons are strongly clumped, with huge ...

Astrophysicists have created the largest ever map of voids and superclusters in the Universe, which helps solve a long-standing cosmological mystery. A team of astrophysicists at the University of ...