Tag: black holes

• Black holes into darkness

  Black holes are gravity at the extreme. As such, many of their properties lie at the edge of our knowledge of physics. At the event horizon — the boundary beyond which nothing can return to the outside Universe — we must grapple with the combination of gravity and quantum physics, a problem we have yet…

  Matthew R. Francis

  August 26, 2014

  Astronomy, Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields

  black holes, firewalls, Hawking radiation, quantum gravity