Sentences with phrase «working on black holes»

You keep missing the point, most of science is not working on black holes and evolution.

STEPHEN HAWKING is one of the world's greatest physicists, famous for his work on black holes.

Three years ago he began his last work on black holes with Malcolm Perry, a theoretical physicist and Hawking's colleague at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and Andrew Strominger, a theorist at Harvard University.

Hawking has made critical contributions to cosmology and quantum gravity, but his work on black holes remains his most famous.

UCLA's Dr. Andrea Ghez talks about her award winning work on the black hole in the center of our galaxy and the importance of Keck Observatory's adaptive optic program.

I don't go up to an astrophysicist and tell him that decades of work on black holes are all wrong because I did a quick thought experiment in my head and decided none of it made sense.

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This level of transparency and autonomy sends a clear message to our employees: Feedback on our culture and work environment doesn't go to a black hole; it's a top - level management priority.

Ingredients: For the meatballs: 1 pound ground chicken breast 1 3/4 cups grated zucchini (roughly 1 7 - to 8 - inch zucchini grated on the large holes of a box grater) 2 garlic cloves, grated or finely minced 1 chipotle pepper canned in adobo 2 teaspoons adobo sauce from the chipotle can 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon kosher salt 2 tablespoons white chia seeds (I like white chia seeds for aesthetic purposes, but black will also work!)

The only people who will pay the extra burden to fill the black hole in the public finances are the working age poor and the public services they rely on.

Libbrecht still does his fair share of work on massive - scale science: He also works on the LIGO project, in which a few hundred scientists are studying gravitational - wave signals from supernovae and black holes.

Building on the work of several other research groups, my collaborator Giuseppe Lodato and I published a set of papers in 2006 and 2007 in which we proposed a novel mechanism that could have produced more massive black hole seeds from the get - go.

Many words will be written on his scientific work, from black holes to the birth of the universe, but, of course, his cultural impact has been much larger.

Dr Weinfurtner said: «This research has been particularly exciting to work on as it has bought together the expertise of physicists, engineers and technicians to achieve our common aim of simulating the conditions of a black hole and proving that superadiance exists.

After her postdoc, Dr Weinfurtner went on to work with Bill Unruh, the Canadian born physicist who also has a made seminal contributions to our understanding of gravity, black holes, cosmology, quantum fields in curved spaces, and the foundations of quantum mechanics, including the discovery of the Unruh effect.

Using an optical fiber and laser light, physicists have simulated a «white hole» — essentially a black hole working in reverse — as they report on page 1367 of this week's issue of Science.

Black Hole Revelations While Strominger co-authored a 1996 paper that offered a mathematical explanation for how mirror symmetry works, his emphasis over the past two decades has been on using string theory to gain insights into black hBlack Hole Revelations While Strominger co-authored a 1996 paper that offered a mathematical explanation for how mirror symmetry works, his emphasis over the past two decades has been on using string theory to gain insights into black hblack holes.

Leonhardt is best known for his work on how metamaterials can be used to fashion invisibility devices and how fiber optics can be used to produce analogs of the event horizon, the point of no return in black holes.

More details are expected later today when one of Hawking's collaborators Malcom Perry expands on the idea, and Hawking and his colleagues say they will publish a paper on the work next month, but it's clear he is gunning for the idea that black holes are inescapable.

But while Hawking went on to gain international fame for his work on the origins of the universe and the nature of black holes, Ellis did not share in those glories.

About 70 people from the university and the Eugene community attended Apsell's talk, which included snippets of some memorable NOVA programs and a preview of two works - in - progress to be aired in January, «Black Hole Apocalypse» and a five - part series on secrets of the solar system in 2019.

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.

Science News has covered Hawking's work extensively over the past decades, including his four laws of black hole mechanics, his work on miniature black holes and, most recently, Hawking's search for a solution to the black hole paradox.

Hawking spent much of his later years trying to figure out how a black hole could regurgitate information — although he also worked on theories of what triggered the big bang.

In the field of astrophysics, the University of Cambridge physicist is also known for his work on gravity and black holes, including his 1974 postulation of the eponymous Hawking radiation, a phenomenon by which a black hole should give off a stream of particles from its outer boundary.

And much as one can apparently detect a black hole by seeing how it bends the light attempting to pass by it, I felt I could detect the value of Stephen's work by its gravitational pull on neighboring scientists in his field.

When he is not chipping away at the inner horizon or working on a popular science book about black holes, he spends time with his wife, Catherine, who shares his rugged individualism: She started her own business making and selling cruelty - free stuffed animals that can be mounted on the wall like trophy moose heads.

Florian Peissker, a PhD student at the University of Cologne in Germany, who did much of the observing, says: «Being at the telescope and seeing the data arriving in real time was a fascinating experience,» and Monica Valencia - S., a post-doctoral researcher also at the University of Cologne, who then worked on the challenging data processing adds: «It was amazing to see that the glow from the dusty cloud stayed compact before and after the close approach to the black hole.»

On 11 February, physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO)-- twin instruments in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana — announced that they had seen just what Einstein predicted: a burst of waves created as two black holes spiraled into each other 1.3 billion light - years away.

«Depending on the mechanism at work, primordial black holes could have properties very similar to what LIGO detected,» Kashlinsky explained.

The suite of telescopes shows how galaxy ecosystems work, including the black hole and its influence on its host galaxy and the gas surrounding that galaxy.

He was also working on other LIGO papers at the time, including one about an earlier detection of a black - hole merger which now needed to be published before it could be eclipsed by the neutron - star merger announcement.

«This includes theorists studying dark matter and the formation of black holes, astrophysicists modelling the subsequent accretion process, and astronomers working on radio and X-ray observations.»

Based on this visible evidence, along with theoretical work, the researchers developed a scenario to describe how the behemoth black hole could be expelled from its central home.

In 1996 Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa of Harvard University were working on the mathematics of string theory, a physics model that describes all fundamental particles as vibrating strands of energy, when they realized that a key property of certain black holes can be predicted by string equations.

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.

«By putting us on a path to better understand the differences between the galaxies that host Type I and Type II active nuclei, this work will help us better understand how supermassive black holes influence the evolution of their host galaxies.»

He is at work on a book about the Event Horizon Telescope and the quest to take the first picture of a black hole.

She says that the results on soft hair, together with some of her own work, seem to settle a more - recent controversy over black holes, known as the firewall problem.

Wang, who did this NASA - supported work while on four - month sabbatical as a Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Visiting astronomer at the University of Cambridge, U.K., points out, «Now we have physically resolved it and for the first time we've made the connection observationally between the massive stars moving around black holes and the X-ray emitting material.

This method only works if the black hole is actively feeding on nearby gas.

Her dissertation work focused on studying and modeling the extremely energetic outflows from active black holes at galactic centers.

So, instead of relying on this method, Melis» team used radio measurements to perform the work, which opened up a more reliable distance beacon: quasars, amazingly bright galactic cores powered by supermassive black holes.

The organization, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, cited Ghez's «acclaimed discoveries using the techniques of optical astronomy, especially her sustained work on the motions and nature of the stars orbiting the black hole in the centre of our Galaxy.»

Professor Mavalvala worked with researchers at the US - based underground detectors Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory to build sophisticated sensors to detect gravitational ripples created from the collision of two black holes some 1.3 billion years ago and had been hurtling through space to reach Earth on September 14, 2015.

«We have observed — on the 4th of January, 2017 — another massive black hole - black hole binary coalescence; the in - spiral and merging of black holes 20 and 30 times the mass of our sun,» Dave Shoemaker, a senior research scientist who works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, told reporters during a special news briefing on Wednesday (May 31).

He has worked on a range of topics in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, focusing recently on modeling the formation of the first stars and supermassive black holes within the first billion years after the Big Bang.

Archival work, of course, isn't exactly what most scientists dream to be doing at NASA, so in 1999 Dr. Livio began shifting his research, focusing on black holes, acceleration of mass, white dwarves, neutron stars and particularly on supernova explosions.

Indian scientists made direct contributions — ranging from designing algorithms used to analyse signals registered by detectors to ascertain those from a gravitational wave to working out parameters like estimating energy and power radiated during merger, orbital eccentricity and estimating the mass and spin of the final black hole and so on.

Working as a production designer for over two decades — on such series as HBO's Hung and United States of Tara, and more recently on John Ridley's American Crime and Black Hole — Richard Toyon just received his second Emmy nomination for his work on Silicon Valley (and third overall).

STARCRASH represents an early foray for the composer into the realm of science fiction and he would soon return again when he worked in 1979 on THE BLACK HOLE, Disney's attempt to compete with rival studios in the wake of STAR WARS and MOONRAKER, that year's entry in the James Bond series, which featured many science fiction elements.