Singularities within equations are common ... question is that of a more fundamental one. How does a mathematical singularity exist in our reality? How does one of the most massive objects ...

A powerful mathematical technique is used ... into your equation for mean curvature flow. The equation will break down; it can no longer predict the surface’s future evolution. But if you remove the ...

But that equation uses a mathematical shorthand called a tensor ... a new solution to Einstein’s equations of gravity near a singularity, using assumptions the three of them had devised.

The problem is that, when they do this, general relativity tells us that all mathematical values go to infinity at the "singularity ... is calculated with the equations that underpin general ...

One presentation of Einstein's field equations painted as a mural on the wall of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, the Netherlands. Photo taken in July 2022. (Image credit: Robert Lea) Molina ...