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A Short History of the Missing Universe
...quasars — the bright cores of galaxies with active black holes at their center — using the new spectrograph at the Keck telescope in Hawaii. Tytler’s data helped researchers understand...
New Quantum Paradox Clarifies Where Our Views of Reality Go Wrong
...of humans and even lesser, [whether] it extends to objects the size of black holes.” Despite this lack of empirical evidence, physicists think that quantum mechanics can be used to...
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...
Solution: ‘Perfect Randomness’
...the Einstein-Rosen (ER) bridge. This was originally proposed in the context of black holes, but perhaps it is true for all entangled particles, as I have discussed in a previous...
Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars
...a paper with recent Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne on the search for black holes and neutron stars. But for David DeVorkin, the senior curator of history of astronomy at...
Why I’m Hosting The Joy of x Podcast
...taught me a lot. As you’ll hear in one episode, the astrophysicist Janna Levin schooled me about black holes, but what I found even more delightful was her explanation of...
How the Cosmic Dark Ages Snuffed Out All Light
...the prevailing theory is that starlight caused it, a competing idea is that the light from supermassive black holes was responsible. “Once we know in detail when reionization happened, or...
Sugary Camouflage on Coronavirus Offers Vaccine Clues
...may be a successful tool against SARS-CoV-2,” Lauc said. Although glycans protect certain regions of the spike protein, there are enough holes in that protection to make researchers suspect that...
To Win This Numbers Game, Learn to Avoid Math Patterns
...the pigeonhole principle: putting seven pigeons into three holes means at least one hole must have three pigeons in it. Notice the resemblance of this argument to the winning strategy...