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A Private View of Quantum Reality
...space travel would be difficult because of the great distances between stars. How do you get around this? I learned about John Wheeler and black holes and wormholes, and that...
A Fight for the Soul of Science
...interconnections,” as Dawid has termed them, in a paper read in Munich in his absence. String theory explains the entropy of black holes, for example, and, in a surprising discovery...
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...
Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth?
...the blanks in these models. Strogatz (16:51): What about black holes? Or the so-called supermassive black holes? Are we going to be getting some information about their role in this...
One Lab’s Quest to Build Space-Time Out of Quantum Particles
...you would need a particle accelerator as big as the Milky Way galaxy. Likewise, black holes hold singularities that are governed by quantum gravity, but no black holes are particularly...
The Near-Magical Mystery of Quasiparticles
...study how black holes evolve with time. The Nobel Prize-winning mathematical physicist Roger Penrose theorized that rotating black holes can lose energy and gradually slow down; Jacquet plans to test...
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...
Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe
Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re finding has them questioning fundamental assumptions about how physics ought to...
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...