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Calculations involving a higher dimension are guiding physicists toward a misstep in Stephen Hawking’s legendary black hole analysis.
Opinions differ about what recent measurements of a sound-trapping fluid reveal about light-trapping black holes.
The same codes needed to thwart errors in quantum computers may also give the fabric of space-time its intrinsic robustness.
The renowned physicist Leonard Susskind has identified a possible quantum origin for the ever-growing volume of black holes.
String theorists elide a paradox about black holes by extinguishing the walls of fire feared to surround them.
The renowned British physicist, who died at 76, left behind a riddle that could eventually lead his successors to the theory of quantum gravity.
Physicists theorize that a new “traversable” kind of wormhole could resolve a baffling paradox and rescue information that falls into black holes.
Can a fluid analogue of a black hole point physicists toward the theory of quantum gravity, or is it a red herring?
The physicist-mathematician Miranda Cheng is working to harness a mysterious connection between string theory, algebra and number theory.