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

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

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

The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...

Recent advancements in observational techniques have led to the capture of high-resolution images of black hole shadows, which are challenging the completeness of Einstein’s general theory of ...

Powered by its Willow chip, Google’s Quantum Echoes algorithm uses out-of-time-order correlators to map molecular structures ...

New evidence from the gravitational-wave event GW230814 shows that when two black holes merge, the horizon area of the ...

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could ...

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

A 15-year-old prodigy in Belgium has earned a PhD in Quantum Physics, securing his place as one of the youngest PhD holders ...