A peer-reviewed paper published in The European Physical Journal C presents a modification to Einstein’s general relativity ...

Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in nature. They warp space and time in extreme ways and contain a mathematical impossibility, a singularity—an infinitely hot and dense object ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. About 13.8 billion years ago, the entire cosmos consisted of a tiny, hot, dense ball of energy that suddenly exploded. That’s how ...