At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

An international team, spearheaded by Prof. Luciano Rezzolla at the Goethe-Universität, has invented a novel approach to ...

Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

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If true, it could mean the universe is destined to collapse rather than expand forever. Einstein proposed the cosmological ...

Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological model. Before anyone starts dusting off their ...

Learn more about the images advanced telescopes could take of black holes and how they could back up Einstein’s general ...

Astronomers might just have peered back to the dawn of starlight-not in a time machine, but through a cosmic magnifying glass ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...