"It may take decades before we find out what really happens in black holes." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Reports of the ...

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 ...

Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The idea that space-time exists is no more ...