"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

By transforming robot motion into a problem of relativistic geometry, scientists have created a control method that guides ...

Even with quantum mechanics and relativity, physics can’t explain everything. Three problems — quantum gravity, dark matter, ...

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

Let’s rewind the clock back…oh, I don’t know, let’s say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his ...

If so, laws might change when the universe itself changes phase. In the early universe, as temperatures and densities shifted, forces split apart from a unified origin. What we call “laws” may be like ...

Recent advancements in observational techniques have led to the capture of high-resolution images of black hole shadows, ...

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

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With next-generation telescopes, they hope to spot telltale signs of alternative physics ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out ...