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Colliding Dwarf Galaxies Reveal a Glimpse of the Early Universe
Scientists may have spotted two pairs of merging dwarf galaxies, each pair with a duo of soon-to-collide black holes
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Has Anyone Created a Black Hole on Earth?
A lab-made black hole is beyond current technology but could be possible one day
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Quantum Entanglement Isn’t All That Spooky After All
The way we teach quantum theory conveys a spookiness that isn’t actually there
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Colliding Supermassive Black Holes Discovered in Nearby Galaxy
These merging supermassive black holes are among the closest ever observed and could help unlock deeper secrets of cosmic history
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Neutrinos from a Nearby Galaxy Reveal Black Hole Secrets
The IceCube observatory has detected neutrinos from an active galaxy for the first time, revealing clues about how supermassive black holes gobble matter
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9 Science Stories That Restore Our Faith in Humanity
A river’s “gut” revived, snake-saving social media, an intragalactic donut, and more success stories of the year
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Is Our Universe a Hologram? Physicists Debate Famous Idea on Its 25th Anniversary
The Ads/CFT duality conjecture suggests our universe is a hologram, enabling significant discoveries in the 25 years since it was first proposed
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The Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Recorded Rattled Earth’s Atmosphere
The death of a massive star far across the universe affected lightning on our planet and could teach us about the Milky Way
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The First Milky Way Black Hole Image Lets Scientists Test Physics
The first image of the behemoth at the center of our galaxy opens new avenues for understanding the nature of black holes
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Black Hole Discovery Helps to Explain Quantum Nature of the Cosmos
New insights from black hole research may elucidate the cosmological event horizon
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How the Inside of a Black Hole Is Secretly on the Outside
Mysterious “islands” help to explain what happens to information that falls into a black hole
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How Physicists Cracked a Black Hole Paradox
Quantum entanglement and spacetime wormholes helped to solve a long-standing quandary
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Hawking, a Paradox and a Black Hole Mystery, Solved?
We do not have a theory to tell us everything about how a black hole works, but new research is shedding a least some light on one of their many mysteries.
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What Is the Black Hole Information Paradox? A Primer
Black holes, wormholes, entanglement, Einstein, mysterious islands and new science that sees how the inside of a black hole is secretly on the outside.
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Black Hole Mysteries Solved
Recent theoretical and observational results have revealed new secrets about these shadowy objects, with deep implications for more than just black holes themselves
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New Solutions to Black Holes, Snake Phobia and Forecasting Atmospheric Rivers
These fun stories show progress from the scale of quantum effects to that of snakes and from Earth to the edge of the universe
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How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy’s Black Hole
It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.
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The Black Hole in the Middle of our Galaxy Looks like This
It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.
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The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way’s Heart Has Been Revealed
The historic image of Sagittarius A* is the culmination of a decades-long astronomical quest—and a crucial step toward a new understanding of black holes, gravity and spacetime...
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Swarms of Black Holes at the Milky Way’s Heart? Maybe Not
Revisiting a controversial claim, astronomers are laying bare deep uncertainties about our understanding of galactic centers
