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What the Sight of a Black Hole Means to a Black Hole Physicist

By Janna Levin
April 10, 2019
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The astrophysicist Janna Levin reflects on the newly unveiled, first-ever photograph of a black hole.

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An Astrophysicist Who Maps the Universe’s Terra Incognita

By Natalie Wolchover
February 4, 2019
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Priyamvada Natarajan has pioneered the mapping and modeling of the universe’s invisible contents, especially dark matter and supermassive black holes.

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The Double Life of Black Holes

By Sabine Hossenfelder
January 29, 2019
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Perfect black holes are versatile mathematical tools. Just don’t mistake them for the real thing.

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How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code

By Natalie Wolchover
January 3, 2019
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The same codes needed to thwart errors in quantum computers may also give the fabric of space-time its intrinsic robustness.

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New Studies Rescue Gravitational-Wave Signal From the Noise

By Natalie Wolchover
December 13, 2018
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Two independent papers vanquish lingering doubts about LIGO’s historic discovery of gravitational waves.

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Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever

By Natalie Wolchover
December 6, 2018
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The renowned physicist Leonard Susskind has identified a possible quantum origin for the ever-growing volume of black holes.

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Galactic Beacons Get Snuffed Out in a Cosmic Eyeblink

By Shannon Hall
November 21, 2018
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Quasars powered by supermassive black holes have been unexpectedly vanishing. Scientists have started to figure out why.

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How Holography Could Help Solve Quantum Gravity

By Thomas Lin
November 14, 2018
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In the latest campaign to reconcile Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, many physicists are studying how a higher dimensional space that includes gravity arises like a hologram from a lower dimensional particle theory.

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Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole

By Joshua Sokol
October 30, 2018
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Hot spots have been discovered orbiting just outside the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center. Their motions have given us the closest look at that violent environment.


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