A team of UBC physicists and engineers have designed an experiment featuring a trough of flowing water to help bolster a 35-year-old theory proposed by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking. In 1974, ...

Black holes, with their cosmic vacuum cleaner meme in hand, have captured the imagination of scientists and the general public in approximately equal numbers for centuries. But imagine those dark ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) A team of scientists has developed a recipe for black ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Black holes seem to get all the attention. But what about their mirror twins, white holes? Do they exist? And, if so, where are they? To understand the nature of white holes, first we have to examine ...

SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE are ravenous black holes that pull gas, dust, light and even other black holes into their maw, never to be seen again. Like a riptide pulling swimmers out to sea, the ...