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Mining Black Hole Collisions for New Physics
...black hole. If you were to measure spin versus mass of black holes, you should see that in a certain mass range for black holes you see no quickly rotating...
LIGO Reports Second Black-Hole Merger
...grew from the merger of small black holes, or if big black holes are formed in massive supernovae explosions of stars.” SXS Collaboration Update: Watch this simulation from the Simulating...
A Glimpse Through a Cosmic Keyhole
...galaxies, meaning that they have jets of material streaming out in two directions, probably powered by the supermassive black holes spinning at the galaxies’ centers. (The jets emit radio light...
Janna Levin’s Theory of Doing Everything
...by way of your research on black holes. Could you talk about this concept you’ve been developing — the black-hole battery? It started really naively. A neutron star has a...
Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind
...comes from the entire mass of the universe. It doesn’t cancel itself out, it doesn’t have positive or negative value, it all adds up. So however far away the black...
After Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash
...of black holes that ultimately merge into one. A similar scenario has been used to explain how colliding black holes could create a gamma-ray burst. “To produce a gamma-ray burst...
The Quantum Secret to Superconductivity
...matte-black ceramic in a class of materials called cuprates that are the most potent superconductors known. The findings, reported today in the journal Nature, provide a major clue about the...
From Einstein’s Theory to Gravity’s Chirp
...reason we can see it from the two black holes is that they are closer together than two stars could ever be. The black holes are so tiny and yet...
Gravitational Waves Discovered at Long Last
...whispers of these black-hole origin stories. Judging by its shape and size, that first, loudest chirp originated about 1.3 billion light-years away from the location where two black holes, each...