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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...
What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones
...Hawking’s approximation is wrong, then sonic black holes are not good proxies for black holes, and quantum gravity might somehow encode black hole histories in their radiation, preserving information as...
Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics?
Hoping to gain insight into domains of nature that lie beyond experimental reach — the interiors of black holes, the subtleties of the quantum realm, the Big Bang — physicists...
Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness
...black holes, for instance, suggests that the stronger the gravity in a volume of space-time, the fewer bits can be stored in that region. Could gravity be reducing the number...
Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’
...of space-time in our own universe, and yet gravity there works in much the same way as it does here. Both geometries, for instance, give rise to black holes —...
19 Women Leading Math and Physics
...isn’t researching black holes. Miranda Cheng, another high-school dropout turned physicist-mathematician, is now chasing a mysterious connection between string theory, algebra and number theory. The Princeton University mathematician Maria Chudnovsky’s...
Yves Meyer, Wavelet Expert, Wins Abel Prize
...LIGO from the collisions of black holes. Meyer, 77, has also contributed to the mathematics of quasicrystals, number theory and the study of the Navier-Stokes equations. Meanwhile, he hopped all...
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,...
A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery
...galaxy to exploding stars, mergers of charged black holes, white holes, evaporating black holes, oscillating primordial cosmic strings, and even aliens sailing through the cosmos using extragalactic light sails. For...