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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...
Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story of Stars
...The mystery, she explained, is twofold: How did the black holes get so massive, considering that stars, some of which collapse to form black holes, typically blow off most of...
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...
Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe
...black holes. We see black holes indirectly, from the glowing gas that the dying gasps of this, you know, glowing gas that’s making its way in. Strogatz: Uh-huh. Natarajan: That’s...
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...
Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter
...same problem, he found a twist. Primordial black holes would indeed form binaries. But Jedamzik concluded that in a universe teeming with black holes, a third black hole would often...
Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes
...the first black holes. Many of those galaxies collided over time, and their black holes merged. Through some mixture of mergers and gobbling up of matter, the first “seed” black...
To See Black Holes in Stunning Detail, She Uses ‘Echoes’ Like a Bat
...black holes. More than that, if we want to get at the question of how black holes grow, we need to look at black holes that are actively growing right...
Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
...“Haven’t we seen black holes?” [LAUGHS] And, and I try to explain, we’ve detected indirect evidence for black holes. We’ve detected pretty direct evidence for the collision of black holes...