The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...

The first step toward quantum gravity, the "holy grail of physics," may be hiding in a quantum recipe to cook up black holes. That's the suggestion of new research that adds quantum corrections to ...

Black holes, these extreme cosmic entities, might well hold the missing clues to solve one of physics' greatest mysteries: the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. For over a ...