Impossible! The word resonated throughout the large lecture hall. I had just finished describing a revolutionary concept for a new type of matter that my graduate student, Dov Levine,…

An Introduction to the Black Hole InstituteFittingly, the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) was founded 100 years after Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein’s equations for general relativity—a…

An Introduction to the Black Hole InstituteFittingly, the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) was founded 100 years after Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein’s equations for general relativity—a…

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.The renowned physicist Leonard Susskind has identified a possible quantum origin for the ever-growing volume…

The problem is loads of wrong predictions from theoretical physicists.Photograph by Inga Nielsen / ShutterstockNothing is moving in the foundations of physics. One experiment after the other is…

Sarah Stewart is living her ideal life—and it just got sweeter. The University of California, Davis planetary physicist recently won a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, famously and…

George Chapline believes that the Event Horizon Telescope will offer evidence that black holes are really dark energy stars. NASAWhat does the supermassive black hole at the center…

For something called the Standard Model, the foundational theory of particle physics is confronting a lengthy list of non-standard data. Neutrino oscillations, dark matter and energy,…

It seemed inevitable that Elon Musk would eventually get into a Twitter war over whether Mars can be terraformed. When you’re on Twitter, he told Businessweek in July, you’re “in…

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog.Astronomers have known where the universe’s missing matter has been hiding for the past 20 years. So why did…