Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Hic sunt leones," remarks Stefano Liberati, one of the authors of the paper and director of IFPU. The phrase refers to the hypothetical singularity ...

Quantum ideas describe particles and fields in tiny packages, but general relativity paints gravity as smooth curves in space ...

Researchers have developed a new quantum theory of gravity which describes gravity in a way that's compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved understanding ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

When an object moves extremely fast—close to the speed of light—certain basic assumptions that we take for granted no longer ...