Recent advancements in observational techniques have led to the capture of high-resolution images of black hole shadows, ...
The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...
Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...
Carlo Rovelli is a physicist at Aix–Marseille University, Marseille, France, and an associate member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in London, Ontario, Canada. Nature seems to have played us ...
New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s ...
The idea that our Universe might be nothing more than a giant computer simulation, similar to what science fiction depicts, ...
When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...
The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.
Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, long after his passing. Reading time: Reading time 5 minutes Albert ...