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Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn
String theorists elide a paradox about black holes by extinguishing the walls of fire feared to surround them. Despite its ability to bend both minds and space, an Einsteinian black...
Responding Rapidly to Big Discoveries
...response” workshop titled “Astrophysics From LIGO’s First Black Holes.” The merging black holes that produced LIGO’s first signal were unexpectedly heavy, with implications for our understanding of the lives and...
New Kind of Space Explosion Reveals the Birth of a Black Hole
...collapsing to a neutron star, it collapsed straight into a black hole, and most of the star fell into the black hole.” As the black hole eats the star’s outer...
Taming Superconductors With String Theory
...to apply his insights to high-temperature superconductors themselves. Quanta Magazine spoke with Sachdev about how the electrons in high-temperature superconductors are related to black holes, his recent success with graphene,...
Craig Callender on the Trouble With Black Hole Thermodynamics
Craig Callender explains why the connection between black holes and thermodynamics is little more than an analogy. Peggy Peattie for Quanta Magazine...
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,...
Peering Into the Early Universe
...time when the first stars and chemical elements and black holes and other exotica came into existence for the first time,” said Gerry Gilmore, an astronomer at Cambridge University. The...
String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity
...requiring a black hole to let information escape would destroy the delicate structure of empty space around the black hole’s horizon, thereby creating a highly energetic barrier — a black...
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
...how paradoxical black holes really are. His first studies of black holes, when he was a graduate student in the ’70s, were key to his adviser Stephen Hawking’s realization that...