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Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time

By Katie McCormick
December 8, 2021
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The “gravitational memory effect” predicts that a passing gravitational wave should forever alter the structure of space-time. Physicists have linked the phenomenon to fundamental cosmic symmetries and a potential solution to the black hole information paradox.

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This Physicist Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox

By Natalie Wolchover
August 23, 2021
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The five-decade-old paradox — long thought key to linking quantum theory with Einstein’s theory of gravity — is falling to a new generation of thinkers. Netta Engelhardt is leading the way.

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Abstractions blog

In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’

By Jonathan O'Callaghan
February 11, 2021
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A new study shows that extreme black holes could break the famous “no-hair” theorem, and in a way that we could detect.

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.

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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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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?

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quantum information theory

Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab

By Philip Ball
February 27, 2020
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A proposal for building wormhole-connected black holes offers a way to probe the paradoxes of quantum information.

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Abstractions blog

Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes

By Charlie Wood
November 19, 2019
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Calculations involving a higher dimension are guiding physicists toward a misstep in Stephen Hawking’s legendary black hole analysis.

Abstractions blog

Philosophers Debate New ‘Sonic Black Hole’ Discovery

By Natalie Wolchover
June 25, 2019
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Opinions differ about what recent measurements of a sound-trapping fluid reveal about light-trapping black holes.


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