Recent progress in string theory has significantly reshaped our understanding of black holes. Traditionally seen as objects characterised by event horizons and singularities, black holes are now being ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

One of the universe’s most dramatic events can now be properly analysed, thanks to University of Cambridge researchers - and ...

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe ...

Astronomers have precisely tracked how black holes ring after violent collision and merger events. The research helps ...

Researchers have created a "black hole bomb" in the lab for the first time. In 1972, physicists William Press and Saul Teukolsky described a theoretical phenomenon called a black hole bomb, in which ...

Assembling data from multiple black hole collisions, that group found that the data agreed with Einstein’s theory as best they could tell. Any deviation from what general relativity predicts for the ...