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The Year in Math
...and long ones — a 912-page paper showing that slowly rotating black holes are going to keep on slowly rotating until the end of time. Some mathematical results can be...
‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
...know if they could drive that number down. By the mid-1970s, Roger Penrose (who would go on to win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on black holes)...
She Turns Fluids Into ‘Black Holes’ and ‘Inflating Universes’
...black holes in “a giant bathtub, but it’s a very special one.” Weinfurtner meets with graduate students in her office. The fluid analogue of a black hole forms as water...
Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
...two black holes is created by EPR-like correlations between the microstates of the two black holes,” and that the duality might be more general than that: “It is very tempting...
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.)...