Sentences with phrase «theory about black holes»

But it's hard to begrudge the cutesy ending sequence, just like it's hard to resist the way the film brings out the children for sentimental effect and features visual motifs inspired by Stephen's theory about black holes.

A collaboration with colleague Jacob Bekenstein, the formula paved the way for further theories about black holes.

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.

The idea of matter escaping the alleged point - of - no - return was surprising (it's a central plot point in that other recent movie about black holes, the biographical The Theory of Everything), but the fate of information that falls into the black hole was what really troubled Hawking's colleagues.

This was a major triumph for string theory because it could do something — offer clues about a black hole's inner makeup — that no other approach could.

Until we have a theory that effectively integrates quantum mechanics and gravity, theoretical physicists are likely to remain almost as puzzled as everyone else about what goes on at the heart of a black hole — although that hasn't stopped them from trying to work it out.

That journey started in earnest when he heard about the counterintuitive notion that black hole theories might apply to other phenomena in different settings.

According to relativity theory, information about what falls into a black hole is forever lost.

This behavior aligns with Albert Einstein's predictions about extreme gravity near rotating black holes, published in his famous theory of general relativity.

That is of interest because there are competing theories about what would happen to such black holes.

Theories of stellar evolution predict that stars weighing less than about 25 times the mass of the sun end up as neutron stars, while heftier stars are destined to become black holes.

In a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from Dublin City University, Columbia University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Helsinki, add evidence to one theory of how these ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our sun, may have formed and quickly put on weight.

Joseph Polchinski, Firewall Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara Year: 2012 Known for: Discovering D - branes, explaining what D - branes are (a string theory thing) Idea: Once a black hole has lost about half of itself to Hawking radiation, the event horizon can no longer store enough encoded information to tell the story of what's inside.

The characteristics of the surrounding stars suggest that although the magnetar's progenitor probably reached 40 solar masses at one point, it shed its mass so quickly that when the star exploded it fell under the 20 - solar - mass limit, thereby creating a magnetar instead of a black hole — and conforming to current theory about stellar evolution.

That's about twice as massive as they should be, according to current theories of how black holes form from stars.

Unlike Einstein's theories, which have been confirmed many times by experiment, Hawking's ideas about singularities and black hole evaporation will probably never be observed.

Light from the collision should help test Einstein's theory of general relativity, and tell us more about two huge bubbles of hot gas at the centre of the Milky Way that the black hole may have spawned.

Since then, there have been many theories about the structure and emission mechanism of Sgr A *, but, in the past few years, astronomers have found increasing evidence that it is a supermassive black hole.

Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space and time produced by dramatic events in the universe, such as merging black holes, and predicted as a consequence of Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity — carry information about their origins and about the nature of gravity that can not otherwise be obtained.

COSMOS - A Spacetime Odyssey's presenter / co-writer talks about Stephen Hawking's black hole theory, known as «Hawking Radiation».

If further data support this observation, it could mark the first confirmed finding of a primordial black hole, guiding theories about the beginnings of the universe.

What is so fascinating about the primordial black hole theory of Garcia - Bellido and Clesse is that it will be tested with current and future instruments.

We are understanding a little more about the Super Massive Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy and observations are also revealing that Einstein was right about his theory of general relativity.

However, both explanations directly contradict theories about how black holes formed and grew in the early universe.

Bryan, you are perhaps unaware of the Big Bang vs Steady State rows, the rows about existence of black holes, the rows about the causes of active galactic nuclei, the current rows about inflationary theory (which touch on your reference to dark matter).