A recent experiment at Fermilab has delivered intriguing results that challenge standard predictions, adding fuel to the ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant advancements in our understanding of black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity. Plus, ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

One of physicist Stephen Hawking's most famous paradoxes may finally be solved: Black holes may in fact hang onto information about the massive stars that created them, new research indicates. This ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the Big Bang” in 1998. What started out as a doctoral project evolved over some 20 years into an ...

Physicists from around the country converged at UC Santa Barbara for two days of talks and camaraderie recently in memory of esteemed physicist Professor Jim Hartle, one of four cofounders of the ...

Quantum computing’s potential has reached a new milestone with the simulation of a black hole. This achievement not only marks a significant advancement in computational physics but also provides new ...

A four-page scientific paper about a theoretical physics question has been making the media rounds this week. That should be no surprise, though, given the author—Stephen Hawking—and the claim he ...