Black holes of string theory - fuzzballs - are perhaps even weirder than the regular type. Black holes are a paradox. They are paradoxical because they simultaneously must exist but can’t, and so they ...

A paradox that puzzled a generation of solar and atomic physicists – and occasionally pitted theories from one field against the other – has been resolved. The paradox concerns the polarization of ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

The 'Hawking radiation' emitted by black holes may be able to carry information after all, a new solution to Stephen Hawking's famous paradox suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek explores the secrets of the cosmos. Read previous columns here. In 1935, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger invented a thought-experiment to test whether ...

The rules of time-travel have been debated by scientists and sci-fi fans alike for years, but now a student physicist has been able to "square the numbers" to show how paradox-free time travel is ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called ...

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Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called ...