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Why This Universe? A New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical.
...an intricate calculation of how quantum particles behave in the curved space-time of a black hole. To his surprise, in 1974 he found that black holes do indeed radiate. Another...
Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter
...“It was really exceptional.” The explosion was a long gamma-ray burst, a cosmic event where a massive dying star unleashes powerful jets of energy as it collapses into a black...
Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics
...for their studies of black holes. Half of the 2019 Nobel went to the astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their 1995 discovery of a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a...
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,...
A Black Hole’s Orbiting Ring of Light Could Encrypt Its Inner Secrets
...to unlock the secrets of Kerr black holes,” he said, referring to the kind of spinning black holes created when stars die and gravitationally collapse. (The photon ring forms concurrently.)...
What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key.
...supermassive black holes in the center. We let these black holes swallow gas and release energy until the whole thing flew apart, like a pressure cooker pot. Suddenly, the elliptical...
At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable
...Kerr, are stationary, Giorgi said. “These formulas apply to black holes that are just sitting there and never change; those aren’t the black holes we see in nature.” To assess...
Mass and Angular Momentum, Left Ambiguous by Einstein, Get Defined
...two black holes that are in the process of merging, and they want to determine the mass of each individual black hole prior to the merger, as opposed to that...
Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth?
...the blanks in these models. Strogatz (16:51): What about black holes? Or the so-called supermassive black holes? Are we going to be getting some information about their role in this...