Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

For decades, black holes have been the ultimate cosmic cliffhanger: regions of space where gravity wins so completely that ...

Singular black hole and non-singular alternatives. Credit: Sissa Medialab. Background image sourced from ESO/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (eso.org/public/images ...

The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...

Recent advancements in observational techniques have led to the capture of high-resolution images of black hole shadows, ...

A team of researchers has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and ...

For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole looks like. But thanks to theoretical physics, we can ask ...

The answer to this question depends on how you think about quantum gravity, explains physicist Vlatko Vedral ...

Loop quantum gravity (LQG) is a non-perturbative, background-independent approach to quantising spacetime that seeks to merge the principles of quantum mechanics and general relativity. In this ...

In March 1974, Stephen Hawking published the paper that made his name. It contained the revelation that black holes – gravitational giants from which nothing, not even light, can escape – don’t grow ...

Scientists have created a giant quantum vortex to mimic a black hole in superfluid helium that has allowed them to see in greater detail how analogue black holes behave and interact with their ...

Falling into a black hole means facing extreme stretching, known as spaghettification, due to immense tidal forces. While ...