Black holes are considered cosmic gluttons, from which not even light can escape. That is also why the images of black holes ...

Mr. Rovelli is an Italian physicist and the author of the upcoming book “White Holes,” from which this essay is adapted. How do we learn something new, something we do not yet know? One way, of course ...

It doesn’t take a degree in astrophysics or expertise on Albert Einstein to appreciate “White Holes,” theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli’s latest book. But brushing up on Dante Alighieri’s work might ...