Gebhardt says studying extreme black holes like the one in M87 gives astronomers their best chance of learning more
about black hole physics in general.
Not exact matches
Their findings dispel the so - called firewall paradox which shocked the
physics community when it was announced in 2012 since its predictions
about large
black holes contradicted Einstein's crowning achievement — the theory of general relativity.
Their findings dispel the so - called firewall paradox which shocked the
physics community when it was announced in 2012 since its predictions
about large
black holes contradicted Einstein's crowning achievement - the theory of general relativity.
RB: The hints that we are getting are similar to the kind of hints we've been getting from semi-classical [not fully quantum mechanical]
physics about black holes.
What gravitational waves from
black holes say
about supernova
physics.
(The fact that this hasn't had catastrophic effects on Earth, if it happens at all, is one reason that researchers at the CERN particle
physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, are so confident that scare stories
about black holes being produced by their Large Hadron Collider are baseless.)
The thing
about these little
black holes — and this is actually something I talk
about [a] lot in the book and which is essential to unifying
physics — little
black holes, you've [got] to think of them very differently from the big ones.
Picking out twisted photons from a
black hole would provide new information
about the objects themselves and provide important tests of general relativity, says Martin Bojowald, a theoretical physicist at Pennsylvania State University who wrote a commentary on Thidé and his colleagues» work for Nature
Physics.
«Pretty much anything we can learn
about black holes has a good chance of leading to deep insights
about the laws of
physics,» says Daniel Harlow of Princeton University.
But this conflicted with the laws of quantum
physics, which state that information
about what fell into the
black hole can never be completely wiped out.
New Scientist broke the news on 14 July that Hawking, at the University of Cambridge, had changed his mind
about black holes after solving a long - standing paradox in
physics.
«The recent detection appears to be the farthest yet, with the
black holes located
about three billion light - years away,» said Bose, professor and researcher in the Department of
Physics and Astronomy.
In the video, Levin, a professor of
physics and astronomy at Columbia University and the author of
Black Hole Blues, gives some facts about space, black holes, and the «sound» that is created by the two massive black holes colliding in s
Black Hole Blues, gives some facts
about space,
black holes, and the «sound» that is created by the two massive black holes colliding in s
black holes, and the «sound» that is created by the two massive
black holes colliding in s
black holes colliding in space.