Figure showing sections through marginal surfaces in a ‘snapshot’ of the researchers’ simulation. The apparent horizons are the three dark lines (the newly formed one is outside and contains the two ...

An event horizon has been defined as an invisible cloak covering a black hole that allows nothing -- not even light -- to escape. The option proposed by Hawking's paper is that black holes simply ...

Stephen Hawking puts forward new theory about black holes Reuters Stephen Hawking has put forward a new theory about black holes in a paper posted online, which says event horizons – the gravitational ...

Most physicists foolhardy enough to write a paper claiming that “there are no black holes” — at least not in the sense we usually imagine — would probably be dismissed as cranks. But when the call to ...

It took Albert Einstein 10 years to find the equations of general relativity, but German astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild only needed a few months to solve them. Schwarzschild’s solution describes ...

Acclaimed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, one of the creators of modern theory on black holes, has now questioned the existence of the phenomenon known as event horizon around them. In a >paper ...

Black holes are basically “game over, man,” for anything that gets too close to them, but they aren’t invincible. In fact, they’re always in the process of self-destructing. We’ll look at how they ...