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Dark Matter Recipe Calls for One Part Superfluid
...field with two colliding black holes and you’ll create gravitational waves. Likewise, if you poke a superfluid, you’ll produce phonons — sound waves in the superfluid itself. These phonons give...
Latest Black Hole Collision Comes With a Twist
...immediately detected gravitational waves from a black-hole merger, no one knew whether it would see merging black holes, merging neutron stars, black holes merging with neutron stars or none of...
Discoveries Fuel Fight Over Universe’s First Light
...evidence that supermassive black holes existed hundreds of millions of years before anyone thought possible. The new discoveries should make clear just how much black holes contributed to the reionization...
The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution
...to everything else: the sun, black holes, living beings and the entire universe. The theory is so simple and general that Albert Einstein deemed it likely to “never be overthrown.”...
A Cosmic-Ray Hunter Takes to the Sky
...that the bigger the better, so the supermassive black holes are usually a little bit ahead. It could be somewhere in the middle: intermediate-mass black holes. Or ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays...
A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery
...galaxy to exploding stars, mergers of charged black holes, white holes, evaporating black holes, oscillating primordial cosmic strings, and even aliens sailing through the cosmos using extragalactic light sails. For...
A New Blast May Have Forged Cosmic Gold
...space-time so much that gravitational waves roar out of the system. LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), which has already succeeded at “hearing” such a crescendo between merging black holes,...
Yves Meyer, Wavelet Expert, Wins Abel Prize
...LIGO from the collisions of black holes. Meyer, 77, has also contributed to the mathematics of quasicrystals, number theory and the study of the Navier-Stokes equations. Meanwhile, he hopped all...
19 Women Leading Math and Physics
...isn’t researching black holes. Miranda Cheng, another high-school dropout turned physicist-mathematician, is now chasing a mysterious connection between string theory, algebra and number theory. The Princeton University mathematician Maria Chudnovsky’s...