Black holes don't actually exist in the way we traditionally think of them, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has proposed in a short but potentially revolutionary paper. Classical theory holds
Over the past few days, the media has cried out the recent proclamation from Stephen Hawking that black holes, a mystery of both science and science fiction, do not exist. Such statements send social media into conniptions, and comments quickly
It sounds simple: setting up a professorship in cosmology in the name of Stephen Hawking, at the University of Cambridge, with a $6 million (£3.63 million) donation. But Cambridge has been forced to put the plan to a vote of its governing Regent House
When Stephen Hawking contradicts his own theory, that's a paradox worth noting. Like the black holes he described 40 years ago, the British cosmologist's reassessment last week of the concept of "event horizons" is pulling in chatter from
In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe — How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? — and discusses how we might go about answering them.