What is the 'singularity' in the first place? 'Singularity' is a term that appears in research fields such as artificial intelligence and the humanities, but when physicists use it when discussing the ...

Can we do away with the troublesome singularity at the heart of black holes? A new paper in JCAP reimagines these extreme objects in light of current knowledge. “Hic sunt leones,” remarks Stefano ...

Before becoming "the father of the atom bomb," J. Robert Oppenheimer made a significant contribution to the science of black holes. Oppenheimer will forever, for better or for worse, be associated ...

長島大三朗による写真展＜solitarational singularity（孤独における特異点）＞が12月12日（水）から12月18日（火）の期間で半蔵門ANAGRAで開催される。 ※「solitarational singularity」は「gravitational singularity（重力の特異点）」を参考にした造語。 特異点（とくいてん ...

A research team at Durham University in the UK has announced that it has discovered what is believed to be the largest known black hole to date. This black hole has a mass of more than 30 billion suns ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The singularities at the centers of ...

After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the US have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves—tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe. Unlike light waves ...