Brian Black writes and speaks widely for public and academic audiences about the intersection of issues of the environment and history. After growing up in Central Pennsylvania, Black worked in ...

At the center of every black hole is a point of infinite density, called a singularity. It's what gives black holes their strong gravitational pull. And for decades, scientists thought ...

A sculpture coated in Singularity Black, using the “void” effect of the black coating to play with the viewer’s perceived shape of the sculpture as their viewing angle changes. Another ...

New quantum computing research reveals that black holes may not have chaotic singularities but structured quantum states, ...

Black holes are cryptic cosmic objects with a center point of infinite density called a singularity. The gravity they wield ...

The tricky thing about AI singularity (and why it borrows terminology from black hole physics) is that it’s enormously difficult to predict where it begins and nearly impossible to know what’s ...

NASA has turned pressure waves emanating from a black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster into notes audible to humans. The sound waves were extracted along the radius of the galaxy ...

But simple it isn’t. General relativity’s equations fail catastrophically at a black hole’s centre, known as its singularity, where the warping of space-time simply goes off the scale.

Priyamvada Natarajan is an astrophysicist at Yale University who specializes in studying the invisible universe: black holes and dark matter. We recently discussed these enigmatic places with her.

This interplay could generate the kind of entropy that resolves itself by accident, potentially catalyzing the singularity many are quietly hoping for. The Quantum Singularity Is Unpredictable ...

The upshot is that his posting suggests we might be at, near, or even passing through a momentous moment of AI advancement referred to as the AI singularity. The implication is that artificial ...