Black hole research sits at the crossroads of gravity, quantum physics and high-performance computing, yet it is often ...

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

Artist view of a black hole ringing down into a stable state. Credit: Yasmine Steele at University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign Artist view of a black hole ringing down into a stable state. Credit: ...

In search of a united scientific theory, a new quantum gravity paper might have proposed an interesting aspect that made the ...

A team of researchers has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and ...

Loop quantum gravity (LQG) is a non-perturbative, background-independent approach to quantising spacetime that seeks to merge the principles of quantum mechanics and general relativity. In this ...

A team of researchers have significantly advanced our understanding of quantum black holes and their properties. Their new mathematical model provides evidence that when quantum matter is taken into ...

Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never expected—like black holes and topological phases in quantum matter! When I ...

Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions. The theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind speaks with co-host Janna Levin about the black hole ...

In March 1974, Stephen Hawking published the paper that made his name. It contained the revelation that black holes – gravitational giants from which nothing, not even light, can escape – don’t grow ...

Over geological time, information loss is the norm, not the exception. The “unitarity” principle of quantum mechanics says ...