In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of ...

A clear look at how physics defines gravity, from Newton’s force-based model to Einstein’s view of curved spacetime, and why ...

There are some things in life that just sort of happen. Desks get covered in dust and scraps of paper. Clothes get dirty and the laundry basket fills up. Weeds slowly creep across an untended ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a ...

(Philipp Tur/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Right on the brink of black hole formation, spacetime can get downright peculiar. This is where familiar physics can become unnervingly strange, and ...

Black holes, regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, have been widely studied over the past ...

Scientists have described for the first time how spacetime could crystallize into a tiny black hole.

Let’s talk about quantum gravity experiments that can be done here on Earth! If we discover how to connect quantum mechanics with general relativity we’ll pretty much win physics. There are multiple ...

Diagrammatic representation of the entropic quantum gravity action. The action for gravity is given by the quantum relative entropy between the metric of the manifold and the metric induced by the ...

What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy? The holy grail of theoretical physics is to find the long-sought theory of quantum gravity. But what if this theory is as ...