Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Born Jan. 8, 1942, Stephen Hawking became a household name associated with his brilliance, and an icon with his wheelchair and computerized voice as the progression of ALS (amyotrophic lateral ...

Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei’s death (January 8, 1642). Guest-starred, as himself, on “The Big Bang Theory,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation” ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

A warning made about AI technology by British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking in 2014 has grabbed attention as multiple videos made by OpenAI’s Sora 2 technology go ...

OpenAI’s new Sora 2 text-to-video model has opened a new can of worms, filling social media with more content of questionable quality. We’re seeing an increasing number of videos featuring deceased ...

OpenAI is capitalizing on bad taste with its new text-to-video generator, Sora 2. The new app allows users to share AI-generated videos on a TikTok-style feed. If you hoped that people would be using ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions. Scientists tracked the complete cosmic collision, confirming that black ...

Studying black holes is immensely difficult, but with gravitational wave detection, astrophysicists do have a way to directly analyze these mysterious objects. A new study details the “clearest ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever-clearer signals, researchers are testing Einstein’s relativity and Hawking ...

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On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...