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John Urschel: From NFL Player to Mathematician
...you the secret handshake later. Urschel: Okay, perfect, perfect. Strogatz: [LAUGHS] [MUSIC PLAYING] Next time on the Joy of x, cosmologist Janna Levin and I wax poetic about black holes....
Robbert Dijkgraaf on Exploring Quantum Reality
...all these possible shapes, think of it as a large sculpture gallery where we have all these possibly beautifully curved spaces, of cosmologies or black holes or, you know, combinations...
Did the Chicken Come First or Is It Turtles All the Way Down?
...further, speculating that inside black holes, universes may give rise to baby universes, each with slightly different laws and constants from its parent. These baby universes would persist longer if...
Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe
...black holes. We see black holes indirectly, from the glowing gas that the dying gasps of this, you know, glowing gas that’s making its way in. Strogatz: Uh-huh. Natarajan: That’s...
Why I’m Hosting The Joy of x Podcast
...taught me a lot. As you’ll hear in one episode, the astrophysicist Janna Levin schooled me about black holes, but what I found even more delightful was her explanation of...
The Year in Physics
...April — a dark void, encircled by a luminous ring, humanity’s first-ever look at a black hole. The existence of black holes had not been in doubt, of course: Astronomers...
Astronomers Find Black Holes Stirring Up the Biggest Galaxies
After a space telescope disintegrated, astrophysicists had little hope of understanding how supermassive black holes agitate giant galaxies. Then they invented a hack. When the Hitomi space telescope successfully reached...
Black Hole Singularities Are as Inescapable as Expected
...“elementary scalar field” in and around their theoretical black hole. And whereas the original Kerr solution concerned an “eternal” black hole that has always been there, the black holes in...
Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes
...to the question of what happens to a 2D black hole’s information. Most experts assume that if the reasoning is correct, it should carry over to higher-dimensional black holes like...