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Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars
...a paper with recent Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne on the search for black holes and neutron stars. But for David DeVorkin, the senior curator of history of astronomy at...
Solution: ‘Perfect Randomness’
...the Einstein-Rosen (ER) bridge. This was originally proposed in the context of black holes, but perhaps it is true for all entangled particles, as I have discussed in a previous...
Long-Lived Stellar Blast Kindles Hope of a Supernova We’ve Never Seen Before
...a preview of how they may have looked and behaved. Perhaps they were also responsible for the first black holes, said Stan Woosley, an astrophysicist at the University of California,...
Are We All Wrong About Black Holes?
...rough similarities between the properties of black holes and the laws of thermodynamics. Stephen Hawking proved that the area of a black hole’s event horizon — the surface that marks...
Craig Callender on the Trouble With Black Hole Thermodynamics
Craig Callender explains why the connection between black holes and thermodynamics is little more than an analogy. Peggy Peattie for Quanta Magazine...
A Black Hole So Big It ‘Should Not Exist’
...a black hole would indeed be detected in the mass gap, because there’s a roundabout way for these plus-size black holes to form. Whereas most of the colliding black holes...
To Make Two Black Holes Collide, Try Three
...process, to make black holes come together more quickly than anticipated. The trouble starts before black holes form in the first place. Black holes are essentially dead relics of massive...
Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws
...basis,” said Amir Pahlavan, a mechanical engineer at Princeton University and a co-author of the recent work. “For black holes, it’s much harder to study and observe them.” The End...
Big Black Holes Found in the Smallest Galaxies
...holes in the universe came to exist. Many astrophysicists, including Bellovary, think that such supermassive black holes grow when entire galaxies smash into each other, leading their central black holes...