(Philipp Tur/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Right on the brink of black hole formation, spacetime can get downright peculiar. This ...

A fifth dimension could fit into general relativity after all—by using this one weird trick.

Some black holes could have tamer origins—in the folds of unusual "spacetime crystals" that researchers finally managed to ...

There is a place in the universe where the ordinary rules simply stop working. Time slows to a crawl. Space curves back on ...

A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: Space and time can form a kind of "crystal" that may turn into a black hole. The results are described in Physical ...

The space-time oddities of modern physics may have just been taken to a new level of odd, as researchers have revealed that space and time can be used to ...

Black holes are regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, even light, can escape. Einstein's theory of ...

Disclaimer: I am very much a physics noob. This might be a nonsensical question. That spacetime can be curved or warped is something I can grasp, but I keep getting stuck on one specific aspect of how ...

The quantum revolution in physics — whose 100th anniversary we have just celebrated — taught us that at the most basic level the world is bizarrely different than it seems. But, we appear to only have ...