In a high-concept meta bait-and-switch, Pam Tanowitz choreographed Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony, then swapped out the score for a new para-Pastoral, by Caroline Shaw. Anyone (okay, almost nobody) can ...

Donnacha Dennehy, ‘Land of Winter’; Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, conductor (Nonesuch) How do you compose light? That was the task that the Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy took on in writing “Land ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few ...

In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally explains how this "forbidden" black hole came to be, and what it can teach ...

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Major theoretical and experimental advances in designing controllable quantum systems have brought us closer to Richard Feynman’s vision of using quantum mechanics to ...

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a flare 30 times brighter than any seen before. The flare, detected by ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Compass Pathways, which ...

The images, captured with the Event Horizon Telescope, show the magnetic field of the supermassive black hole M87* completely reversing. EHT Collaboration Observations of a supermassive black hole ...

We have found hot wind blasting out from our galaxy’s supermassive black hole for the first time, which could help us understand its mysterious inactivity. Compared to many other supermassive black ...