In a special illustrated feature, Ben Platts-Mills explains why Albert Einstein and other eminent physicists refused to believe black holes ... as a super-dense "white dwarf" but one only a ...

Black holes, with their cosmic vacuum cleaner meme in hand, have captured the imagination of scientists and the general public in approximately equal numbers for centuries. But imagine those dark ...

Albert Einstein was much more than a ... In a 1946 commencement speech delivered at the historically black college Lincoln University, Einstein decried segregation and called it "a disease of white ...

Learn how a trio of scientists do the math, based on a Stephen Hawking theory, and even ask how long it would take for a ...

This mismatch has haunted physicists for decades, leading scientists to explore alternative models that describe black holes without singularities. A new study from researchers at ...

Albert Einstein ... Unproven Einstein theory of 'gravitational memory' may be real after all, new study hints Physicists take step toward a 'theory of everything' Black holes may obey the laws ...

A prediction originally made by Albert Einstein about a "plunging region" around black holes has finally been confirmed. Researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom discovered that ...

This area, where matter stops circling a black hole and instead falls straight in, was predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, but it has never been observed before.

When you hear the name Albert Einstein, what do you think of? Many people picture a brilliant but absent-minded man with wild white hair. But like all of us, Einstein started out as a kid.

On Wednesday, the Event Horizon Telescope released the first-ever image of a black hole ... gravitational waves and proved an century-old Einstein theory.

In a special illustrated feature, Ben Platts-Mills explains why Albert Einstein and other physicists refused to believe black holes could be real. Were they too strange to imagine?