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May 20, 2016

Here’s your chance to help astronomers solve “one of the biggest mysteries of all time”

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A team of astronomers investigating “the most mysterious star in our galaxy” have launched a Kickstarter campaign, with hopes to raise $100,000 to find out “Where’s the Flux?”

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May 17, 2016

What is the Multiverse, and why do we think it exists?

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Whether these Universes are similar or different to our own, whether they have the same physical laws and properties, whether they have the same fundamental constants, particles and interactions, we do not know.

And at the same time, our very best laws of nature tell us that this is reality: we are a tiny fraction of our observable Universe, which is a tiny bit of the unobservable Universe, which is just one of a tremendous number of Universes in a multiverse that’s constantly generating new ones, and has been for billions of years. And that’s the Multiverse we live in, to the best of our knowledge!

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May 16, 2016

The Big Bang is not the beginning of our universe — it’s actually the end of something else entirely

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Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explores what existed before the Big Bang in his new book, “The Big Picture.”

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May 13, 2016

Could A New Type Of Supernova Eliminate Dark Energy?

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The surprising faintness of these distant “standard candles” showed us an accelerating, dark energy Universe. Could there be a different explanation?

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May 11, 2016

Stephen Hawking says Black Holes could be portals to another Universe

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According to statements from renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, Black Holes are not the cosmic prisons we thought they were, and could actually be portals to another universe.

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During a lecture at Harvard’s Sanders Theater, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking helped about Black Holes during an event which marked the inauguration of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative wich aims to join numerous scientists and focus scientifically on Black Hole Research.

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May 10, 2016

Parallel-universe search focuses on neutrons

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Particles could be in a superposition of different branes, say physicists.

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May 10, 2016

Tiny Tests Probe for Dark Matter and Other Exotic Physics

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Experiments that can fit on a tabletop are probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy and searching for evidence of extra dimensions.

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May 10, 2016

Viewpoint: Black Holes Produce Complexity Fastest

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Theoretical results suggest a precise speed limit on the growth of complexity in quantum gravity, set by fundamental laws and saturated by black holes.

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May 5, 2016

“Black Holes could be Portals to Other Universes” — Stephen Hawking

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“Black holes could be interdimentional portals to other universes” — Stephen Hawking.

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May 3, 2016

New Model Could Show That Stephen Hawking Is Right About Black Holes

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One of the longest standing mysteries of black holes is what happens to stuff when it falls inside. Information can’t move faster than light, so it can’t escape a black hole, but we know that black holes shrink and evaporate over time, emitting Hawking radiation. This has troubled scientists for 40 years. Information can’t simply vanish.

Now, physicists Kamil Brádler and Chris Adami, from the University of Ottawa and Michigan State University respectively, have been able to show that the information is not at all lost, but is transferred from the black holes into the aforementioned Hawking radiation, potentially solving a long-standing mystery of cosmology.

Over 40 years ago, Stephen Hawking put forward the idea that although nothing can escape a black hole, there should be a certain amount of particles emitted from the outer edge of the black hole’s event horizon. This emission would over time steal energy from a black hole, causing it to evaporate and shrink.

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