String theory’s equations require that the universe has extra dimensions beyond the three of everyday experience—left/right, back/forth and up/down. Taking the math to heart, researchers ...

Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the 'first observational evidence supporting string ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe.

Earlier studies provided a rough picture of black holes, like a low-resolution image with 1,000 pixels. In contrast, ...