A "forbidden" merger between two black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. New research that ...

Time, the September read for the New Scientist Book Club, is a dreamer’s book, full of curiosity, love, fun, art – and ...

Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny change in energy. Their breakthrough came ...

A newly described spacetime crystal could collapse into a microscopic black hole when exposed to a very small energy change, ...

A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: Space and time can form a kind of "crystal" that may turn into a black hole. The results are described in Physical ...

A team of researchers led by the University of Warwick has developed the first unified framework for detecting "spacetime fluctuations"—tiny, random distortions in the fabric of spacetime that appear ...