You might think it takes a lot of energy to escape Earth's gravity, but our planet's pull is tiny compared to many other things in the Universe. Same for our Sun, the galaxy, or even an extreme object ...

Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event horizon — yet new research suggests it may secretly leak information. That leakage would appear in subtle signatures in gravitational waves, and now ...

Researchers make progress on a vexing problem about how black holes evolve. If there’s one misconception people have about black holes, it’s that nothing ever escapes them. As physicist Stephen ...

With the passing of Stephen Hawking, science has lost not only its most recognizable public figure, but also a remarkable researcher into the nature of black holes. While his final paper may have ...

The black hole information paradox raises a lot of questions. When something goes into a black hole some theories state that ‘physical information’ could be gone. This means that physical states would ...

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Stephen Hawking announced during a lecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden on Tuesday that he has potentially solved the Information Paradox. The paradox a conflict ...