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In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness
...particle physics experiment on Earth will cut to the heart of the mystery much faster. But uncovering these isolated pockets of darkness — and any intricate physics that accompanies them...
Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation
...density approaches infinity and known physics goes off the rails. In the 100-plus years since, physicists and mathematicians have explored the properties of these enigmatic objects from the perspective of...
Quantum Complexity Shows How to Escape Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
...foundations of most modern theories, including the celebrated Standard Model of particle physics. Physicists expect semiclassical physics to falter when gravity grows intense, as it does at the still-inscrutable center...
Does Nothingness Exist?
...call it nothing? After all, there could still be energy inside or perhaps subatomic matter and particles that we just can’t see. In modern physics, this idea of nothingness has...
How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions
...the gravitational pull of the structures defining a void’s edge. Because of this, in a void “very little happens,” Pisani said. “There are no mergers, no complicated astrophysics. This makes...
How Quantum Physicists Explained Earth’s Oscillating Weather Patterns
...matter physics, but he was also curious about climate physics and the behavior of fluids in Earth’s oceans and atmosphere. Marston suspected there was a connection between geophysical waves and...
Can Math and Physics Save an Arrhythmic Heart?
...and physics to stop deadly heart arrhythmia. (00:21) You may remember the horrifying scene that occurred during a recent pro football game, when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on...
The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy
...acrobatics his peers performed to tackle one of the most notorious problems in modern physics: the black hole information paradox. In 2017, Oppenheim started searching for alternatives that avoided the...
A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos
Physicists finally know where at least some of these high-energy particles come from, which helps make the neutrinos useful for exploring fundamental physics. Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass...