A team of physicists mathematically built an exotic object that they believe could look like a black hole to Earth-based observers but is actually a star. The star is a topological soliton: a smooth, ...

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Topological solitons arise as stable, particle-like field configurations in magnetic and gauge theories, sustained by non-trivial mappings between spatial coordinates and internal order parameters. In ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...