Gravity used to be the most dependable rule in the cosmic rulebook, the quiet background force that never changed its mind.

Fans are eager to understand the meaning behind the “holding space for Defying Gravity” meme that’s spreading across the internet. Wicked, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, hit theaters ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a ...

Cooling metal bars to near absolute zero, suspending microscopic gold beads, or searching for signs that gravity might be quantum: meet the scientists hunting for gravity's elusive nature ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...