Three physicists have proposed a modification to Einstein’s general relativity that, if confirmed, could eliminate the singularity at the origin of the universe. By adding higher-curvature terms to ...

Long and winding road: The Juice space probe taking the long way to Jupiter and its moons - Copyright NASA/AFP/File NASA Long and winding road: The Juice space probe ...

One of the goals of modern physics is to determine the underlying rules that govern our reality. Indeed, one of the wonders of the universe is that just a few rules seem to describe many aspects of ...

A link between particle physics and gravity equations, called the double copy, applies to Hawking radiation, creating a new ...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reviews Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved by Marcia Bartusiak (CC BY-SA Alain r) While there have been ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the core concepts needed to understand quantum physics, which is one of the two pillars of modern physics. The other, of course, is the theory of relativity, the full and ...

Cormac O’Raifeartaigh reviews The Perfect Theory: a Century of Geniuses and the Battle Over General Relativity by Pedro G Ferreira Fighting it out: an artist's impression of two black holes circling ...