When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) A team of scientists has developed a recipe for black ...

2026 is highlighted as the year of the singularity with Elon Musk warning of underestimated impacts; conversations with him ...

Can we do away with the troublesome singularity at the heart of black holes? A new paper in JCAP reimagines these extreme objects in light of current knowledge. “Hic sunt leones,” remarks Stefano ...

01 October 2024, Baden-Württemberg, Ehningen: A model of a suspension of the quantum chip of a Quantum System Two quantum computer is on display at the opening of the first quantum data center of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led some cosmologists to wonder if our universe could have ...

A radical new theory by physicist Naman Kumar is challenging the way we think about the birth of the universe. Rather than ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

A starship driven by a captive black hole sounds like pure science fiction, yet the underlying physics is brutally literal. A tiny, artificial singularity would convert mass into energy with an ...

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 ...

Over at the Physics And Cake blog, there’s a great discussion of exactly how machines will replace theoretical physicists, with their only goal being to create a perfect model of the universe, and no ...