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, ...

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 ...

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

Recent advancements in observational techniques have led to the capture of high-resolution images of black hole shadows, ...

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

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

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 ...

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

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 ...

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 ...