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The Year in Physics
...and force scientists to reimagine how familiar cosmic objects came to be — things like stars and planets and black holes. Black holes are also at the center of one...
Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms
...heavy spinning black hole, the neutron star spirals in and the black hole shreds it over hundreds of orbits, leaving a heavier disk of material that the black hole needs...
A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity
...black holes. This could occur even in a space with small amounts of matter, if it’s concentrated strongly enough. In a recent paper, Conghan Dong, a graduate student at Stony...
The Quest to Quantify Quantumness
...on phases of quantum matter and the destructive nature of black holes. For these reasons, both physicists and computer scientists have endeavored to map out the exact topography of this...
The Deep Link Equating Math Proofs and Computer Programs
...helical structure of DNA, for example, or the existence of black holes. However, some revelations are profound because they show that two old concepts, once thought distinct, are in fact...
In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness
...images of quasars — blazing beacons of light emitted by matter falling into black holes — and found evidence for dark halos as small as hundreds of millions of solar...
Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation
...Irvine — have released a new paper that brings us closer to determining the presence of black holes based solely on the concentration of matter. In addition, their paper proves...
JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe
...these precursor black holes, such as three record-setting youngsters discovered this year, scientists hope to learn where the first humongous black holes came from and perhaps identify which of two...
Quantum Complexity Shows How to Escape Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
...it holds for real black holes, it will conclusively answer a gauntlet of classic black hole questions, from what an astronaut would experience as she fell into a black hole...