The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

Suppose the birth of the universe was not a definite start, but a cosmological rebound far within a black hole? This radical idea has been ... of the universe backward to an unexplainable singularity, ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

This singularity, I believe, already haunts a number of science-fiction writers. It makes realistic extrapolation to an interstellar future impossible.

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 ...

The term “black hole” had only just come into widespread use. In September 1969, on a visit to Moscow, Thorne was given a manuscript by Evgeny Lifshitz, a prominent Ukrainian physicist.

This new research suggests that "ordinary black holes" without a central singularity — the physics equivalent of having your cake and eating it — may be more than just the fever dream of ...

Rather than a black hole singularity, their approach indicates the existence of “strong quantum fluctuations,” which the release describes as “tiny, temporary changes in the energy of space.” ...

This center, known as a singularity, is the point where the matter of a giant star, which is believed to have collapsed to form the black hole, is crushed down into an infinitesimally tiny point.

The term originated in physics, possibly for the first time, in 1915 as a part of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. It has also been derived from mathematics and refers to a point that ...

Traditional black holes, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, contain a singularity, a point where the laws of physics cease to apply. These singularities pose a major problem in ...