There is no proof that black holes contain singularities when they are generated by real physical bodies. Roger Penrose claimed sixty years ago that trapped surfaces inevitably lead to light rays of finite affine length (FALL's). Penrose and Stephen Hawking then asserted that these must end in actual singularities. When they could not prove this they decreed it to be self evident. It is shown that there are counterexamples through every point in the Kerr metric. These are asymptotic to at least one event horizon and do not end in singularities.
The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars—but how did those stars form?
Brief introduction to Causal Set Theory.
The newly discovered tetraquark provides a unique window into the interactions of the particles that make up atoms.
We are near to new physics.
Today the LHCb experiment at CERN announced new results which, if confirmed, would suggest hints of a violation of the Standard Model of particle physics. The results focus on the potential violation of lepton flavour universality and were announced at the Moriond conference on electroweak interacti...
Einstein's theory of special relativity would revolutionise the field of physics upon its introduction. This is the first part of the ZME Science guide to that revolutionary theory. Einstein's theory of special relativity would revolutionise the field of physics upon its introduction. This is the fi...
An international team of scientists led by the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE) and the University of Aveiro shows that the heaviest black hole collision ever observed, produced by the gravitational-wave GW190521, might actually be something even more mysterious: the merger of two b...
An international team of scientists led by the Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE) and the University of Aveiro shows that the heaviest black hole collision ever observed, produced by the gravitational-wave GW190521, might actually be something even more mysterious: the merger of two boson stars.
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Six part series on Quantum.
Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, scientists in the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at the LHC have been hard at work characterising its properties, and hunting down all of the diverse ways in which this ephemeral particle can decay. From the copious but experimentally challenging decay t...
