Tag: Astronomy

  • Hawking’s Black Hole Prediction Faces a Mathematical Challenge

    Hawking’s Black Hole Prediction Faces a Mathematical Challenge

    To understand the universe, scientists often seek the strange wanderers at its edges. “You always want to know about the extreme cases — the special cases that lie at the edge,” said Carsten Gundlach, a mathematical physicist at the University of Southampton. Among the universe’s oldest legends made real are black holes—mysterious realms where matter…