What lurks at the center of a black hole? Studying the space-time ripples from black hole collisions could reveal an answer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The singularities at the centers of ...

Can we do away with the troublesome singularity at the heart of black holes? A new paper in JCAP reimagines these extreme objects in light of current knowledge. “Hic sunt leones,” remarks Stefano ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs have unlocked the enigmatic core of black holes, a phenomenon that has fascinated and perplexed researchers for decades. Advanced technology and innovative research ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result ...

After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the US have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves—tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe. Unlike light waves ...

David Blair receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In 2017, astronomers witnessed the birth of a black hole for the first time. Gravitational wave detectors picked up the ripples in ...