Gravity

Cosmologists have concluded that the universe doesn’t appear to clump as much as it should. Could both of cosmology’s big puzzles share a single fix?

Claudia de Rham showed how theories of “massive gravity” could potentially get rid of the need for dark energy.

New calculations show how hypothetical particles called gravitons would give rise to a special kind of noise.

We asked four physicists why gravity stands out among the forces of nature. We got four different answers.

By chewing on the problems posed by “extremal” black holes, physicists have exposed a surprising and universal connection between energy and entropy.

Einstein’s equations describe three canonical configurations of space-time. Now one of these three — important in the study of quantum gravity — has been shown to be inherently unstable.

For the first time, physicists have calculated exactly what kind of singularity lies at the center of a realistic black hole.

Lurking behind Einstein’s theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was.

The same codes needed to thwart errors in quantum computers may also give the fabric of space-time its intrinsic robustness.