Roger Penrose is one of the world’s most prominent theoretical physicists who in 1965 produced the mathematics that showed how stars collapse to form black holes. With Stephen Hawking, he ...

culminating in the Penrose-Hawking Singularity Theorems. These theorems demonstrated that singularities are an inevitable feature of general relativity under very general conditions, strengthening ...

During his long career, Roger Penrose has collaborated with Stephen Hawking to uncover the secrets ... the so-called singularity at the heart of a black hole. Receive a weekly dose of discovery ...