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Sharon Glotzer’s Deep Curiosity About Order From Chaos
...of the Skocpol group was to design a flange for a sputtering chamber. To design, like, where do you put the holes for the electron guns, so you could sputter...
New Kind of Space Explosion Reveals the Birth of a Black Hole
...collapsing to a neutron star, it collapsed straight into a black hole, and most of the star fell into the black hole.” As the black hole eats the star’s outer...
Growing Inventory of Black Holes Offers a Radical Probe of the Cosmos
...holes they are observing. The latest catalog of these so-called black hole binary mergers — the result of two black holes spiraling inward toward each other and colliding — has...
In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’
A new study shows that extreme black holes could break the famous “no-hair” theorem, and in a way that we could detect. Identical twins have nothing on black holes. Twins...
‘Unicorn’ Discovery Points to a New Population of Black Holes
Small black holes were nowhere to be found, leading astronomers to wonder if they didn’t exist at all. Now a series of findings, including a “unicorn” black hole, has raised...
Topology 101: The Hole Truth
...cheese. A topologist would say that all but the first example are holes. But to understand why – and why mathematicians even care about holes in the first place —...
Galaxy-Size Bubbles Discovered Towering Over the Milky Way
...and below their disks, and they’ve wondered what makes the central supermassive black holes in those galaxies churn so much more violently than ours does. The Fermi bubbles, and now...
The Year in Physics
...wormholes and holograms — will one day bear glorious fruit. Progress on the Black Hole Information Paradox Here’s an extremely brief version of the black hole information paradox: Stuff...
Contemplating the End of Physics
...in 2016) and the first image of a black hole’s event horizon in 2019. All three were rare instances of scientific mega-events that landed on the front pages of newspapers...