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Universal Quantum Phenomenon Found in Strange Metals
...(The black hole pops out of the particle system like a hologram.) Remarkably, physicists find that black holes — incredibly dense, spherical objects whose gravity is so strong that not...
Physicists Mourn Joe Polchinski, Developer of Deep Ideas and Paradoxes
...share of lasting developments without following trends or getting into ruts. In important recent work, Polchinski reinvigorated an old paradox about black holes. Quantum fluctuations near the horizons of black...
Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings From the Big Bang
...Way, has a supermassive black hole in its center that weighs million or billions of times more than the sun. If two galaxies merge, their black holes will start to...
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...
In Search of Cracks in Albert Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
...but it doesn’t explain what happened at the Big Bang, or what happens inside black holes. The singularity of a black hole is mathematically very similar to the Big Bang...
Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe
...experiment where unitarity looks creaky involves black holes, intense concentrations of matter that warp space-time into a dead end. Stephen Hawking calculated in 1974 that black holes evaporate over time,...
Hopes of Big Bang Discoveries Ride on a Future Spacecraft
...a few billion. This will let LISA listen in on astrophysical events that ground-based observatories can’t “hear,” such as the mergers of supermassive black holes (as opposed to star-sized black...
The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy
...the black hole’s event horizon. But if the black hole evaporation process is indeterministic then there’s no paradox. We never learn what was thrown into the black hole because predictability...
Physicists Find a Way to See the ‘Grin’ of Quantum Gravity
...nature of gravity and space-time must be revealed — always hide behind the horizons of black holes. “Even a few years ago it was a generic consensus that, most likely,...