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At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable
...Kerr, are stationary, Giorgi said. “These formulas apply to black holes that are just sitting there and never change; those aren’t the black holes we see in nature.” To assess...
She Turns Fluids Into ‘Black Holes’ and ‘Inflating Universes’
...black holes in “a giant bathtub, but it’s a very special one.” Weinfurtner meets with graduate students in her office. The fluid analogue of a black hole forms as water...
Why Are Black Holes So Bright?
...Why Black Holes Are So Bright There are a number of ways that black holes can appear to glow. When gas from nearby stars falls toward the black hole, the...
Massive Black Holes Shown to Act Like Quantum Particles
Physicists are using quantum math to understand what happens when black holes collide. In a surprise, they’ve shown that a single particle can describe a collision’s entire gravitational wave. When...
Astronomers Find Black Holes Stirring Up the Biggest Galaxies
After a space telescope disintegrated, astrophysicists had little hope of understanding how supermassive black holes agitate giant galaxies. Then they invented a hack. When the Hitomi space telescope successfully reached...
Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes
...mathematicians Mihalis Dafermos and Jonathan Luk have proven that the strong cosmic censorship conjecture, which concerns the strange inner workings of black holes, is false. “I personally view this work...
Spotting Quantum Black Holes in the Lab
Can we test speculations about how quantum physics affects black holes and the Big Bang? In physics, we discover a new law by making a guess, and then comparing the...
Priyamvada Natarajan: How Black Holes Shape Galaxies
Priyamvada Natarajan explains the role of supermassive black holes in the structure and evolution of the universe. Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine...
How a New X-Ray Technique Sees Black Holes
Astrophysicist Erin Kara explores black holes by carefully tracking the gas and plasma swirling near their event horizons. Video: Emily Buder and Christopher Webb Young/Quanta Magazine; Photo: Katherine Taylor for...