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2020 in Review

The Year in Physics

By Michael Moyer
December 23, 2020
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Featuring paradoxical black holes, room-temperature superconductors and a new escape from the prison of time.

Spheres of three different sizes.
Abstractions blog

Debate Erupts Over How ‘Forbidden’ Black Holes Grow

By Adam Mann
November 3, 2020
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Once missing in action, middleweight black holes have finally been detected. Now researchers are trying to figure out how they grow from small ones.

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Hidden Structure

The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End

By George Musser
October 29, 2020
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In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information.

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Physics Nobel Awarded for Black Hole Breakthroughs

By Natalie Wolchover
October 6, 2020
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Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of black holes.

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Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter

By Joshua Sokol
September 23, 2020
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It was an old idea of Stephen Hawking’s: Unseen “primordial” black holes might be the hidden dark matter. A new series of studies has shown how the theory can work.

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The Physicist Who Slayed Gravity’s Ghosts

By Thomas Lewton
August 18, 2020
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Claudia de Rham showed how theories of “massive gravity” could potentially get rid of the need for dark energy.

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Quantized Columns

Spotting Quantum Black Holes in the Lab

By John Preskill
July 15, 2020
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Can we test speculations about how quantum physics affects black holes and the Big Bang?

A falling apple.
Abstractions blog

Why Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces

By Natalie Wolchover
June 15, 2020
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We asked four physicists why gravity stands out among the forces of nature. We got four different answers.

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Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order

By Natalie Wolchover
May 28, 2020
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By chewing on the problems posed by “extremal” black holes, physicists have exposed a surprising and universal connection between energy and entropy.


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