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Galaxy-Size Bubbles Discovered Towering Over the Milky Way
...and below their disks, and they’ve wondered what makes the central supermassive black holes in those galaxies churn so much more violently than ours does. The Fermi bubbles, and now...
How to Solve Our Three John Conway-Inspired Puzzles
...and holes reduce edges by four (with a weight of 4). So single edges need to be balanced with U’s and/or holes using the following formulas: Singles(s) and U’s (u)...
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...
John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality
...a talk at the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York, Wheeler gave them a name that stuck: black holes. Once christened, black holes were taken seriously, both as...
Strange Noise in Gravitational-Wave Data Sparks Debate
...collision of two black holes. The team held a press conference in Washington to announce the landmark findings. They also released their data. Now a team of independent physicists has...
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...
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...
How Radio Astronomy Reveals the Universe
...massive stars known as pulsars, the cosmic microwave background (light bearing the fingerprints of the Big Bang itself), and the first signs of supermassive black holes at the centers of...
Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On
...theoretical physicist Lenny Susskind assured me that every last qubit of quantum information will languidly leak from the black hole in Hawking radiation until the evaporation escalates and the black...