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Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
...a black hole’s center that Einstein’s equations break. Thus generations of physicists have looked to black holes for clues about the true, quantum origin of gravity, which must fully reveal...
New Math Proves That a Special Kind of Space-Time Is Unstable
...black hole will form. Here’s the proof of instability: Moschidis showed that when he adds even a minuscule amount of matter to an AdS space-time, a black hole (or black...
To Win This Numbers Game, Learn to Avoid Math Patterns
...pigeonhole principle: putting seven pigeons into three holes means at least one hole must have three pigeons in it. Notice the resemblance of this argument to the winning strategy in...
Sugary Camouflage on Coronavirus Offers Vaccine Clues
...may be a successful tool against SARS-CoV-2,” Lauc said. Although glycans protect certain regions of the spike protein, there are enough holes in that protection to make researchers suspect that...
Why Are Black Holes So Bright?
...Why Black Holes Are So Bright There are a number of ways that black holes can appear to glow. When gas from nearby stars falls toward the black hole, the...
Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.
...these entire ideas.” This new way of thinking about information may suggest a resolution to the black hole information paradox, which asks what happens to information swallowed by black holes....
Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
...“Haven’t we seen black holes?” [LAUGHS] And, and I try to explain, we’ve detected indirect evidence for black holes. We’ve detected pretty direct evidence for the collision of black holes...
How the Cosmic Dark Ages Snuffed Out All Light
...the prevailing theory is that starlight caused it, a competing idea is that the light from supermassive black holes was responsible. “Once we know in detail when reionization happened, or...
Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab
...black hole. Now make a second black hole that is quantum entangled with it, which means that anything that happens to one of the black holes will seem to have...