Book your tickets today to hear Edinburgh’s first resident philharmonic orchestra for almost 90 years brings its first annual season to a conclusion with one of the most perplexing pieces of music ...

A gravitational singularity refers to a point in spacetime where density and curvature become infinite, and the equations of general relativity no longer provide meaningful predictions. Theoretically, ...

As Edinburgh’s first resident philharmonic orchestra for almost 90 years prepares to bring its first annual season to a close at the Usher Hall on Sunday 12 October, it is delighted to announce two ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, enabling physicists to test a theorem postulated by Stephen Hawking in 1971 ...

In 1971, Stephen Hawking theorized that a black hole's event horizon can never shrink. Recently, LIGO confirmed this by observing two black holes merging on January 14, 2025. The resulting black ...

(N. Fischer/MAX PLANCK INSTISTUTE FOR GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS/AFP) Ripples in spacetime sent hurtling through the universe when two black holes smash into each other -- a phenomenon predicted by Albert ...

Ripples in spacetime sent hurtling through the universe when two black holes smash into each other — a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein — have confirmed a theory proposed by fellow physicist ...

Patricia Schmidt receives funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through grants ST/V005677/1 and ST/Y00423X/1, and The Royal Society through a Research Grant RG\R1\241327. Geraint Pratten is ...

Scientists have used a gravitational wave detector to "hear" two black holes getting bigger as they merged into a single, gigantic entity. The detection, made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational ...

"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." ...