In September 1964, mathematician Roger Penrose crossed a road near his office in Birkbeck College, London, deep in conversation with cosmologist Ivor Robinson. Thankfully, they had paused at the ...

The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...

Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss Impossible man Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford with his diagram of a twistor in 1980. (Courtesy: Anthony Howarth/Science Photo Library) ...

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human ...

The basic idea is that you send a beam of light around a pair of black holes spinning around each other prior to a merger, or a single black hole spinning quickly, and use the higher-energy ...

Ranjit Nair, intellectual and founder of Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of Science (CPFS), died of cardiac arrest on April 14, 2025, at his residence in New Delhi. He was 70. Passionately ...

"In an important article written in 1969, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose speculated on the ... author Jorge Pinochet of the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences told ...

Mathematicians at Monash University have cracked a centuries ... “We used a version of spinors developed by Nobel prize-winner Roger Penrose, and Wolfgang Rindler, which they applied to the ...

Building on earlier work by Roger Penrose, Hawking argued that singularities ... Years later, when Cambridge University made his thesis freely available online in 2017, it was downloaded over ...