Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solutions to Einstein's famous equations back in the 20th century describe 'wormholes,' or tunnels through space-time. Mark ...

One of the most awkward parts of writing a book is that, eventually, authors have to ask people for “blurbs” – the endorsements that you see on the cover of a book, encouraging you to buy it. I am now ...

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 ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a ...

Theoretical physicists have long debated the possible existence of wormholes, which are mathematically possible, but no evidence points to their physical existence. One theory suggests that these ...