Stephen Hawking once suggested Albert Einstein’s assertion that “God does not play dice” with the universe was wrong. In Hawking’s view, the discovery of black hole physics confirmed that not only did ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The brilliant physicist Richard Feynman once famously remarked that “nobody understands quantum mechanics” ...

From his desk at Cambridge University and beyond, Stephen Hawking sent his mind spiraling into the deepest depths of black holes, radiating across the endless cosmos and swirling back billions of ...