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Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise
...more than five times longer than the result in 2018. “This is basically a breakthrough result,” said Brian Reville, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in...
A World Without Clouds
...the simulated climate “goes over a cliff,” said Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A leading authority on atmospheric physics, Emanuel called the new findings...
Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes
...can form. Nevertheless, for the past 50 years, extremal black holes have served as useful models in theoretical physics. “They have nice symmetries that make it easier to calculate things,”...
Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time and Lights Up the Sky
...questions in astrophysics. “In one fell swoop, gravitational wave measurements” have opened “a window onto nuclear astrophysics, neutron star demographics and physics and precise astronomical distances,” said Scott Hughes, an...
In Quantum Games, There’s No Way to Play the Odds
...thinking about physics. These “nonlocal” games were conceived in the 1960s by the physicist John Stewart Bell as a way to understand the bizarre quantum phenomenon called entanglement. While quantum...
How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?
...in South Korea and a co-author of a September paper in Physics Letters B describing the idea. The black holes would cause this dark matter to vibrate like a bell...
Black Hole Echoes Would Reveal Break With Einstein’s Theory
...in theoretical physics. We dream of the day when one of our equations will be plotted against data and fit spot on. It’s rare for this dream to come true....
Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order
...formula says that any changes to the microscopic physics of the gas, such as the type of atoms that comprise it, produce equal and opposite shifts in its energy and...
How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists
The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information. The universe bets on disorder. Imagine, for example,...