Scientists have proposed a new class of star, one with an exotic stellar engine that would emit mostly hard-to-detect neutrinos instead of photons of light like regular stars. These objects, dubbed ...

Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case. How many fundamental forces are there in our universe? For particle physicists, answering ...

Today, the universe as we know it is governed by four fundamental forces: the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, electromagnetism, and gravity. However, these four forces aren’t exactly as ...

Physicists propose there may be a new stage for some dying stars. Dubbed electroweak stars, they are fueled by the conversion of quarks to leptons, which prevents or staves off collapse into a black ...

Scientists have proposed a new class of star, one that has an exotic stellar engine that would emit mostly hard-to-detect neutrinos instead of photons of light like regular stars. These objects, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have proposed a new class of star, one that has an exoticstellar engine that would ...

We explore how forces of nature, once unified, were forced to separate. Our universe seems..complicated. We have a weird zoo of elementary particles, which interact through very different fundamental ...

When small stars die, they collapse to form neutron stars in which the Pauli exclusion principle prevents further collapse. Anything more massive eventually becomes a black hole (with the cut off at ...

We don’t know for sure, but some of the massive stars in this nebula could be electroweak stars. For some stellar objects, the final phase before or instead of collapsing into a black hole may be what ...