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LIGO Reports Second Black-Hole Merger
...professor of physics at Syracuse University, told Quanta that the two observations to date “tell us the black holes exist over a broad range of masses, from about seven to...
Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story of Stars
...universe, akin, some said, to when Galileo first pointed a telescope at the sky. Already, the new gravitational-wave data has shaken up the field of astrophysics. In response, three dozen...
Tiny Tests Seek the Universe’s Big Mysteries
...of exotic physics that could be visible at scales just below the thickness of a dollar bill — provided you build a clever-enough experiment, one small enough to fit on...
Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe
...you know, like, a very sort of strong sense of being grounded in physics and foundations of physics and mathematics. And, so, I often come up with a diagram, like,...
Isadore Singer Transcended Mathematical Boundaries
...well as those between mathematics and quantum physics. He pursued deep questions and inspired others in his original research, wide-ranging lectures, mentoring of young researchers and advocacy in the public...
‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
...mathematics and computer science. But he never forgot the pinball machine, and how computer science put limits on the machine’s physics. He wondered whether undecidability touched any physics problems that...
Quantum Complexity Shows How to Escape Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
...foundations of most modern theories, including the celebrated Standard Model of particle physics. Physicists expect semiclassical physics to falter when gravity grows intense, as it does at the still-inscrutable center...
Physicists Rewrite the Fundamental Law That Leads to Disorder
...of what will probably happen. “We like laws of physics to be exact,” said the physicist Chiara Marletto of the University of Oxford. Can the second law be tightened up...
In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death
...physicists. It was an early example of how everyday physics connects to the grandest themes in cosmology. Drop ice cubes into a glass of water, and you create a situation...