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what a black hole’s spin tells us about its past
While many news outlets were reporting a new paper showing that a black hole’s accretion disk can accelerate gas to nearly the speed of light by the event horizon’s distortion of the very fabric of...
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black hole interrupted, or rise of the suron
Apologies for the sudden hiatus everyone. In the last several weeks, life has interfered with any possibility of writing and when there has been time for anything, it’s been occupied by Project X...
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why falling into black holes is so complicated
Black holes are, needless to say, strange places, and over the years, I’ve written much about all the bizarre paradoxes and extreme questions they pose. All this weirdness is what makes them fun to...
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if an astronaut falls into a black hole, will he turn into quantum fuzz?
Falling into a black hole is a confusing and complicated business, rife with paradoxes and weird quantum effects to reconcile. About a month ago, we looked at black holes’ interactions with the...
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the paradox of the black hole information paradox
Imagine a problem with seemingly countless solutions, a paradox that’s paradoxically solved by completely unrelated mechanisms some of which violate the rules of physics as we know them, while others...
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what a black hole’s spin tells us about its past
While many news outlets were reporting a new paper showing that a black hole’s accretion disk can accelerate gas to nearly the speed of light by the event horizon’s distortion of the very fabric of...
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black hole interrupted, or rise of the suron
Illustration by Kevin Gill Apologies for the sudden hiatus everyone. In the last several weeks, life has interfered with any possibility of writing and when there has been time for anything, it’s been...
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why falling into black holes is so complicated
Black holes are, needless to say, strange places, and over the years, I’ve written much about all the bizarre paradoxes and extreme questions they pose. All this weirdness is what makes them fun to...
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if an astronaut falls into a black hole, will he turn into quantum fuzz?
Falling into a black hole is a confusing and complicated business, rife with paradoxes and weird quantum effects to reconcile. About a month ago, we looked at black holes’ interactions with the...
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the paradox of the black hole information paradox
Imagine a problem with seemingly countless solutions, a paradox that’s paradoxically solved by completely unrelated mechanisms some of which violate the rules of physics as we know them, while others...
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supermassive black holes, the paradoxical creators of stars, planets, and life
Black holes are places where the laws physics as we know them break down as they’re spun a thousand times per second in trillion degree plasma made of elementary particles. And while they get a bad...
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what interstellar’s black hole can teach us about science in entertainment
Interstellar, to be perfectly forthright, seemed like Inception with spaceships and black holes, the equivalent of a new hit single with the same chord progression as the last one. But one of the...
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right round, like a black hole baby, right round…
Computer simulation of a black hole’s event horizon exhibiting a phenomenon known as frame dragging, in which space is warped at different speeds based on the movement of the black hole Black holes...
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why black holes have magnetic storms like stars
Using the tremendous resolving power of the ESO’s Very Large Telescope array in Chile, astronomers used the new GRAVITY instrument to detect the “wobble” of bright patches embedded inside the...
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world of weird things podcast: ultimate doomsday prepping
Well, folks, that’s all for the universe as we know it. Cold, dark, and filled with disintegrating stellar corpses. But your civilization is still around. What do you do? Where do you go as the cosmos...
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unmasking a monster: a “stunning confirmation” of black hole theory
When Avery Broderick initially saw the first image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), he thought it was too good to be true. After playing a critical role in the project since its inception in...
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world of weird things podcast: a (theoretical) peek inside a black hole
Now that everyone saw and talked about the EHT black hole image, it’s probably a good time to catch up on all the details the popular explainers missed, like what’s inside a black hole, what happens...
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putting hawking to the test with sonic blasters and supercooled gas
Falling into a black hole is an extremely complicated and difficult to study process that puzzled physicists and cosmologists for decades. Since matter that crosses the event horizon is more or less...
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wowt explains: what is a black hole?
Over the century or so that we’ve been interested in black holes, we’ve gotten so comfortable with the term that it barely phases us when it’s mentioned. But much of what we typically think we know...
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what interstellar’s black hole can teach us about science in entertainment
Interstellar, to be perfectly forthright, seemed like Inception with spaceships and black holes, the equivalent of a new hit single with the same chord progression as the last one. But one of the...
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