the universe
Now imagine a white hole – a black hole’s time-reversed twin…
Just as you can enter a black hole without leaving it, you can exit a white hole without entering it – but first you must understand what black holes really are
Will the universe end with a bang or a bounce?
Alexander Masters speculates on how the universe will end
Physicists have stranger ideas than the most preposterous Old Testament preacher
The beliefs of physicists are infinitely kookier than anything in the Bible, says Alexander Masters
White dwarfs and neutron stars — stepping-stones to the black hole
The idea of black holes sounds so quintessentially modern and 20th-century that it may come as a surprise to learn…