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A New Map of the Universe, Painted With Cosmic Neutrinos
...step. Little is known about how the activity around some supermassive black holes generates these particles, and so far the evidence points to multiple processes or circumstances. Long-Sought Origin Abundant...
An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe
...black holes get relatively close to each other? There were reasons to think that instead of merging, as smaller black holes do, supermassive black holes just rotate around each other...
In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death
...of even more powerful machines. A New Paradox of Black Holes In the mid-20th century, black holes were mysterious because of their “singularity” at their core, a place where infalling...
Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?
...form in reasonable ways without creating black holes, for example. So you can imagine rules in which there are special values of the Higgs mass, which could be extraordinarily fine-tuned....
The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions
...addition to powering solar flares, reconnection may power the speedy, high-energy particles ejected by exploding stars, the glow of jets from feasting black holes, and the constant wind blown by...
How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics
...more than glorified photocopies. Oversize mathematical symbols scrawled in thick black ink frequently interrupt the neatly typed sentences. The text is also written in French, an inconvenience for researchers in...
Wormhole Experiment Called Into Question
...and vice versa, effectively putting on and taking off the glasses. They watch how particles, black holes and wormholes transform as one switches between the two perspectives. Calculations that are...
Dinosaur Bone Study Reveals That Not All Giants Grew Alike
...like D’Emic’s start to open that black box. Breaking Bones Bones contain secrets about an animal’s life history. Holes left behind by long-gone blood vessels can reveal a creature’s metabolic...
Shadows in the Big Bang Afterglow Reveal Invisible Cosmic Structures
...suggests that blasts from supernovas and accreting supermassive black holes forced the gas away from its dark matter nodes, spreading it out so that it was too thin and cold...