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Decades ago, Einstein predicted the existence of something he didn’t believe in — black holes. Ever since then, people have been trying to get a glimpse of these collapsed stars that represent the limits of our understanding of physics.
For the last 25 years, Andrea Ghez has had her sights …read more
Continue reading Andrea Ghez Gazes into Our Galaxy’s Black Hole
Neutrinos are some of the strangest particles we have encountered so far. About 100 billion of them are going through every square centimeter on Earth per second but their interaction rate is so low that they can easily zip through the entire planet. This is how they earned the popular …read more
Serious vulnerabilities found in Fujifilm x-ray devices, Facebook could be fined 5 billion over privacy violations, preinstalled malware on bootleg streaming devices, hackers using SIM swapping to steal cryptocurrency, and how a 29 year old compute… Continue reading Fujifilm, Facebook, & Black Holes – Paul’s Security Weekly #601
“This is one of the most extraordinary black hole systems I’ve ever come across.” Continue reading This Black Hole Is Wildly Ejecting Plasma Jets as It Eats a Star
Black holes swallow everything that comes in contact with them, so how do plasma jets manage to escape their intense gravity? Continue reading New Supercomputer Simulations Show How Plasma Jets Escape Black Holes
Last year astronomers witnessed an explosion like no other. Now astronomers are debating if what they witnessed was the exact moment a star became a black hole. Continue reading Astronomers May Have Seen a Star Turn Into a Black Hole for the First Time
The astronomers took advantage of a fortuitous discovery to measure the rotation of a supermassive black hole with unprecedented accuracy. Continue reading Astronomers Discover a Supermassive Black Hole Rotating At Half the Speed of Light
The black hole information paradox fascinated Hawking for decades, and is the topic of his final research study. Continue reading Stephen Hawking’s Last Paper Is Now Online
A statistical analysis of 740 supernovas found that black holes can only account for 40 percent of dark matter in the universe, putting another nail in the coffin for the MACHOs theory of dark matter. Continue reading Black Holes Can’t Account for Missing Dark Matter in the Universe
Observing the light from neutron stars provided a baseline to measure the effects of extra dimensions on the propagation of gravitational waves through space. Continue reading Gravitational Waves Show No Evidence of Extra Dimensions