A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: Space and time can form a kind of "crystal" that may turn into a black hole. The results are described in Physical ...
Microscopic black holes have long hovered at the edge of theory, forming only in exquisitely balanced states. Now physicists ...
Some black holes could have tamer origins—in the folds of unusual "spacetime crystals" that researchers finally managed to ...
Black holes crashing together may be revealing clues about dark matter hidden across the universe. Physicists created a new ...
Bell's theorem, the well-known theoretical framework introduced by John Bell decades ago, delineates the limits of classical physical processes arising from relativistic causality principles. These ...
The quantum revolution in physics — whose 100th anniversary we have just celebrated — taught us that at the most basic level the world is bizarrely different than it seems. But, we appear to only have ...
In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.
Families, students and curious minds filled the ground floor of White Hall on Saturday afternoon as West Virginia University ...