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Can Black Holes Enable Time Travel to the Past?
New ReviewTime travel is nothing special. You’re time traveling right now into the future. Relativity theory shows higher gravity and higher speed can slow time down enough to allow you to potentially travel far into the future. But can you travel...
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One Theory that Connects Everything: AdS/CFT Correspondence Demystified
New ReviewAdS/CFT suggests that our three-dimensional universe can be perfectly modeled by a two-dimensional surface. On one side is AdS, or Anti-de Sitter space, which is a kind of imaginary universe with some unusual properties - negative...
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Hawking Radiation Explained: How Black Holes Lose Energy
New ReviewHawking radiation,Black-Hole Evaporation and black hole explosions! Stephen Hawking theorized that a black hole may not be so black. He showed that when you apply the laws of quantum mechanics to classical physics, you find that they...
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General Relativity Explained with Simple Visuals
New ReviewSUMMARY Albert Einstein was ridiculed when he first published his theory. People thought it was too weird and radical to be real. Einstein wasn’t satisfied with his theory either, because the theory did not apply if Gravity was present...
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How Fundamental Constants Define the Limits of Physics: The Planck Scale
New ReviewHow the Planck scale is derived from the most important fundamental constants in physics. This is where our physics ends. If you wanted to simulate the universe in a computer, you would need to enter about 26 fundamental constants. 15 of...
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Quantum Holonomy Theory: A New Take on the Limits of Reductionism
New ReviewDoes a final theory exist that can end our reductionist probing into ever shorter distances? Or is there no end to reductionism? There should be an end point because as the object of our measurement gets small enough, the high energies...
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Does the Many Worlds Theory Suggest Quantum Immortality?
New ReviewQuantum Immortality - is it real? Quantum mechanics shows that all particles are not particles at all but really waves of probabilities. There are two common interpretations of how these waves become distinct- one is the "many worlds...
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Is the Universe a Hologram? Exploring the Holographic Principle
New ReviewHolographic Universe? Are we living on a hologram? Or inside a black hole? Our perception is that we live in a three dimensional world. What if our three dimensions, can be equally represented on a two dimensional surface? Does this mean...
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How Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs Are Formed
New ReviewSUMMARY The universe is full of opposing forces balanced in a celestial tug-of-war, until they sometimes aren’t. In stars, the two opposing forces are gravity which tries to collapse the star inward, and outward pressure due to the...
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Dark Energy and Black Holes: A Hidden Connection?
New ReviewSUMMARY: Are black holes the source of dark energy? A new study by Farrah et al, published in February of 2023 claimed to have found a solution to dark energy, showing a connection with supermassive black holes. What is dark energy? It's...
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Black Holes Are Even Weirder Than You Thought
New ReviewKarl Schwarzschild crafted the first exact solution to Einstein's equations of general relativity. He found that as gravity increased around an object, there must be a point where even light could not escape. He theorized black holes.
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An Impossible Information Paradox in Black Holes Seems to Break Physics
New ReviewSUMMARY In 1976, Stephen Hawing proposed that Black Holes, do something impossible according to the laws of quantum mechanics. They destroy information. This is a paradox because information should be conserved in the universe. If it is...
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Scientists share first photograph of Milky Way black hole
Scientists share first photograph of Milky Way black hole
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What if you've already seen the black hole?
I propose to imagine what a black hole would look like right in the sky above our heads if we could see it.
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Binary Star System Surprisingly Found Near Monster Black Hole
A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). Credit; ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner....
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Early Universe Black Hole Devoured Matter At Astonishing Rate
U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have discovered an early universe supermassive black hole "consuming matter at a phenomenal rate —...
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Massive Black Hole Has 'Awakened' In Galaxy SDSS1335+0728
Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole at its core,” according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit; Space.com | ESO/L. Calçada, M....
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Zoom Into The Milky Way's Sagittarius A* Black Hole
Watch this amazing animation. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, GRAVITY Collaboration, EHT Collaboration (Music: Azul Cobalto)
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See The Milky Way's Sagittarius A* Black Hole In An Amazing Polarized Event Horizon Telescope Image
Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," according to ESO. Credit: ESO
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Largest Black Hole Jet Discovered - Stretches 23 Million Light Years
The jets dubbed Porphyrion stretch for 23 million light years, equal to 140 Milky Ways lined up side by side. They erupted from a black hole that existed when the universe was half its current age. Credit: S. Landis/ K. Rappaport (SCL)
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NASA Simulation Of What It Would Look Like Flying Through A 'Black Hole' - Visualization Video
Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell Music: “Tidal Force,” Thomas Daniel Bellingham...
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Galaxy Of Closest Pair Of Black Holes Viewable In Stunning 4K
Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey.org); Digitized Sky Survey 2; VST...
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Merging Black Hole Animation Shows Gravitational Waves Being Released
This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max-Planck-Institut für...
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How Can We Achieve The Sharpest-Ever Black Hole Image?
The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration managed to capture the 1st image of the Milky Way's black hole in what was a groundbreaking moment for astronomy. Now, they want to snap an even clearer view of the incredible object. Credit: ESO