A theoretical study predicts five-dimensional primordial black holes within a model containing a hidden extra spatial ...

A trapped-ion quantum simulator has captured the real-time unraveling of a confining string, revealing that charge pairs form ...

Can adding every positive whole number really give you -1/12? We explore how physicists extract meaningful finite values from infinite sums, and how this strange mathematical tech ...

Among the most intriguing candidates are primordial black holes (PBHs), thought to form from overdensities in the early universe. For decades, studies assumed these PBHs were ordinary four-dimensional ...

Making it work would require pulling a lot of (cosmic) strings—but perhaps we need wild explanations to explain wild events.

An unexplained high-energy neutrino detected three years ago could be linked to a primordial black hole, perhaps one more even unusual than previously thought ...

Duke's 13-ion experiment completes a trio of string-breaking results across three quantum platforms. Here is what it proves ...

In quantum field theory, spontaneous particle formation can occur when the potential energy between two elementary particles increases with their separation, as if they were confined by a string. When ...

The existence of these black holes could explain the recent detection of a high-energy neutrino by the KM3NeT detector. This ...

Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve ...

Using a trapped-ion quantum simulator, physicists discovered that particle strings break from the edges inward.

Physicists found no tiny black holes at the LHC, but they just made the hiding place for new physics considerably smaller. Credit: SciTechDaily.com. Scientists have expanded the s ...