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Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole
Sep 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they detected structure at ...
'Digital dark age' may doom some data
Oct 27, 2008 |
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What stands a better chance of surviving 50 years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file on your computer's hard drive?
Qubits and Branes Share Surprising Features
Jul 03, 2008 |
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What do black holes and entangled particles have in common? Until about a year ago, physicists thought that the two entities existed in completely separate worlds. Then, in 2007, physicist Michael Duff from ...
Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes
May 14, 2008 |
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Physicists at Penn State have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes, those regions of space where gravity is so strong that, according to Einstein's theory of general ...
Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC
Sep 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On August 8, the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, began the process of slowly throttling to full power. When its proton beams are circling ...
'Naked Eye' Gamma Ray Burst Was Aimed Squarely At Earth
Sep 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The brightest explosion ever seen was observed in March this year. Now a team of astronomers from around the world, including the University of Leicester, the Mullard Space Science Laboratory ...
Physical reality of string theory demonstrated
Jul 06, 2009 |
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String theory has come under fire in recent years. Promises have been made that have not been lived up to. Leiden (The Netherlands) theoretical physicists have now for the first time used string theory to describe a physical ...
Black hole expelled from its parent galaxy
Apr 30, 2008 |
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By an enormous burst of gravitational waves that accompanies the merger of two black holes the newly formed black hole was ejected from its galaxy. This extreme ejection event, which had been predicted by ...
Is Everything Made of Mini Black Holes?
May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In trying to understand how gravity behaves on the quantum scale, physicists have developed a model that has an interesting implication: mini black holes could be everywhere, and all particles ...
Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity Theory
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Spacetime, which consists of three dimensions of space and one time dimension, is such a large, abstract concept that scientists have a very difficult time understanding and defining it. Moreover, ...
Scientists identify smallest known black hole
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Using a new technique, two NASA scientists have identified the lightest known black hole. With a mass only about 3.8 times greater than our Sun and a diameter of only 15 miles, the black hole lies very close ...
Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Awoke from Slumber 300 Years Ago
Apr 15, 2008 |
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Using NASA, Japanese, and European X-ray satellites, a team of Japanese astronomers has discovered that our galaxy’s central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago.
Scientists find black hole 'missing link'
Sep 17, 2008 |
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Scientists at Durham University have found the "missing link" between small and super-massive black holes.
Black holes not black after all
May 12, 2008 |
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International scientists have used flowing water to simulate a black hole, testing Stephen Hawking's theory that black holes are not black after all.
Chinese scientists create metamaterial black hole
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two physicists in China have used metamaterials to create the first artificial electromagnetic black hole. The scientists, Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui from the Southeast University in Nanjing, ...
