The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Japanese physicists have demonstrated for the first time that knotoid structures—stable knots—can naturally form within a ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

The new data seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is negative, and that the universe will end in a Big Crunch,” ...

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

Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Dubbing these “closed timelike geodesics” (CTGs), Ralph and Sajeendran explain in the paper: “Such a CTG would be ideal for ...

In fact, the Euclid Consortium, the international group managing the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, just ...

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 ...

One of the most awkward parts of writing a book is that, eventually, authors have to ask people for “blurbs” – the endorsements that you see on the cover of a book, encouraging you to buy it. I am now ...