Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, has joined
world-leading writers and thinkers to launch the third series of
Hay Levels masterclasses, an inspiring, free series of educational
videos from the Hay Literary Festival in which...
Much remains uncertain about how black holes reach supermassive
girth and influence the universe around them. As such, astronomers
want to analyze intermediate-mass black holes of about 100 to
10,000 solar masses that they expect would serve as the...
For the third time in less than two years, physicists have
detected billion-year-old ripples in the fabric of space-time. The
new recording, like the two others before it, was made using the
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)...
Could dark matter consist of primordial black holes, as numerous
as the stars? It’s an old, improbable idea, but it made a
Lazarus-like comeback a year ago, when the discovery of
gravitational waves suggested that the cosmos abounds with...
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, a multinational
effort involving more than 100 researchers, including School of
Natural Sciences Members Dimitrios Psaltis (2001–03),
Feryal Özel (2002–05), and
Ramesh Narayan (1987–88,
1994, 2001 and...
Scientists who in February announced their landmark discovery of
these ripples in spacetime revealed today that they had detected
more—again caused by a pair of crashing black holes. This second
find shows that the initial discovery was not a rare...
New calculations by Stephen Hawking and former Members in the
School of Natural Sciences Malcom
Perry and Andrew
Strominger suggest that essential properties of whatever falls
into these cosmic pits may survive. Read more http://ow.ly/fqf13011cVL.
In Black Hole Blues: And Other Songs From Outer Space
the astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin chronicles the
decades-long development of a machine that could detect
gravitational waves—a quest marked by the highest degree of human
intelligence...
