A simple explanation of dark matter and antimatter, how they differ, how scientists study them, and why both are important to understanding the universe.

An illustration of an active black hole, one that accretes matter and accelerates a portion of it outwards in two perpendicular jets. The normal matter undergoing an acceleration like this describes ...

There is likely little in the world of physics that is so accurately named yet exotically connotated as matter and antimatter. Matter is simple; it is all the stuff and material that makes up you and ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

At the end of a lecture on astronomy, describing how the planets orbit the Sun, a little old lady at the back of the room stood up and said: "What you've told us is all rubbish. The world is really a ...

Scientists have demonstrated the existence of gravity between antimatter and Earth, reaffirming Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. It is thought that Isaac Newton's historic work on ...

As beautiful as the universe is, astronomers still can't explain why it is the way it is. The universe should be uniform, without galaxies like seen here. A physics paper released in November 2020 ...