A new recipe of "quadratic gravity" could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed ...

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 ...

Physicists have introduced quadratic quantum gravity (QQG), a theoretical extension of Einstein’s general relativity, that could eliminate the Big Bang singularity. This model envisions the universe ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could ...