The Navier–Stokes partial differential equation was developed in the early 19th century by Claude-Louis Navier and George ...

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

Black holes form when an enormous mass collapses into an infinitesimal point known as a singularity. That compression creates such powerful gravity that nearby matter, particles and even photons are ...

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 ...

New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an event horizon, potentially solving some of the biggest paradoxes in black ...

Falling into a black hole means facing extreme stretching, known as spaghettification, due to immense tidal forces. While ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In Learning from the Atom-based Quantum Computer, I suggest that the atom is the most ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Over at the Physics And Cake blog, there’s a great discussion of exactly how machines will replace theoretical physicists, with their only goal being to create a perfect model of the universe, and no ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. 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 ...