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LIGO Architects Win Nobel Prize in Physics
...in the discovery of “gravitational waves,” tiny ripples in space-time set in motion by faraway cataclysms such as the collisions of black holes. The existence of gravitational waves was predicted...
Ultra-Powerful Radio Bursts May Be Getting a Cosmic Boost
...What could possibly be making such blasts? Astrophysicists imagined one-off cataclysms — perhaps collapsing stars, or colliding black holes — which would seem to be the only way to generate...
Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time and Lights Up the Sky
...discovery that earned the experiment’s architects the Nobel Prize in Physics this month. Three more signals from black hole collisions followed the initial discovery. Yet black holes don’t give off...
Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes
...University, the repulsive negative energy in the wormhole’s throat can be generated from the outside by a special quantum connection between the pair of black holes that form the wormhole’s...
Squishy or Solid? A Neutron Star’s Insides Open to Debate
...come from black holes, which are more tractable beasts from a computational standpoint. But this signal involved lighter objects and went on for much longer than the black hole mergers....
‘Crazy’ Supernova Looks Like a New Kind of Star Death
...pair-instability, at which point, finally, they gravitationally collapse into black holes. (If Woosley’s theory is correct, there ought to be an absence of black holes over a certain mass range,...
Plunge Into a (Virtual Reality) Black Hole
...with curves in the space-time fabric, space-time ceases to curve smoothly inside black holes, or even to make sense. Knowing what happens inside black holes would reveal the unknown, quantum...
Earliest Black Hole Gives Rare Glimpse of Ancient Universe
...fog and figurative mystery. They want to know what burned the fog away: stars, supermassive black holes, or both in tandem? And how did those behemoth black holes grow so...
What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult?
...as water flowing through a hose, so much harder to understand mathematically than, say, Einstein’s field equations, which involve stupefying objects like black holes? The answer, I discovered, is turbulence....