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Random Surfaces Hide an Intricate Order
...Next, fit them together in any fashion, as long as the final shape closes up like wrapping paper around a gift (so no holes or openings). If you start with...
The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries
...is still as productive as it once was. The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein’s century-old insights are by now deeply embedded in the popular imagination: Black holes, time warps and...
Philosophers Debate New ‘Sonic Black Hole’ Discovery
...information escapes black holes. Others regard the fluid experiment as an amusing demo that says nothing about black holes or their central mystery. The paradox sprang from Hawking’s 1974 insight...
Physicists Debate Hawking’s Idea That the Universe Had No Beginning
...they met in Cambridge for long periods of collaboration. The duo’s theoretical investigations of black holes and the mysterious singularities at their centers had turned them on to the question...
The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
...a sharp pencil. “I’d poke holes for ones, and I’d cover up with Scotch tape the others,” she said. “He just got a kick out of it.” There were desks...
The Astronomer Who’d Rather Build Space Cameras
...to be luminous material surrounding supermassive black holes.) So in the ’70s, you built one of the earliest astronomical instruments with CCDs, which had just been invented and could detect...
What the Sight of a Black Hole Means to a Black Hole Physicist
...I have both found our way via relativity to the most remarkable of its predictions, black holes. Black holes were conceived of as a thought experiment, a fantastical imagining. Imagine...
Math Duo Maps the Infinite Terrain of Minimal Surfaces
...constructed, offer a lens through which to study the geometry of the surrounding space, and they turn up in a range of scientific settings, from the study of black holes...
With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close In on an Explanation
...might also make FRBs when they crash into other objects like black holes or white dwarfs, when they themselves collapse into black holes, or when their magnetic field lines are...