On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

There will come a moment when technology stops evolving with us and starts evolving beyond us. Known as the Singularity, it’s ...

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. 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 ...

With artificial intelligence ever more ubiquitous, some worry about it going rogue and achieving what’s known as singularity: A point at which it surpasses human intelligence and, well, what ...

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...