Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

New research challenges the long-accepted notion of singularities in black holes — the point where physics allegedly breaks ...

You might have heard of the three-body problem, how there is no exact solution to predicting the behavior of three ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum ...

Astronomers gain a greater understanding of black hole singularity. Experimental evidence for a finite core could illuminate ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar feature: the singularity at the center—a point, hidden behind the ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes ... the center of standard black holes—those described by solutions to Einstein's field equations. To understand what ...

International team calculates observable quantities such as scattering angle and emitted energy with unrivalled precision.

Quantum ideas describe particles and fields in tiny packages, but general relativity paints gravity as smooth curves in space ...

Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

SciFi books and films never explain how faster-than-light speed works. Wormholes are one solution, but there are problems.