Kurt Hinterbichler reviews Claudia de Rham's first-hand and personal glimpse into the life of a theoretical physicist and the process of discovery.

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope ...

Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi movie gets analyzed by a real astrophysicist, who sings the movie's praises despite ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

Gravitons are hypothetical subatomic particles, considered key components in a theoretical quantum theory of gravity. Some ...

Feb. 13, 2025 — Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e. points where the laws of physics break down.

Recent research suggests wormholes may already have been detected. Could Einstein have been right all along? How these ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be driving the ever-faster expansion of the universe, appears to be changing ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant ...

Quantum mechanics is used to propose that black hole singularities could be the start of a new phase, rather than a point of destruction.

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...