Cygnus X-1, one of the first identified black holes, is much weightier than expected, raising new questions about how such objects form.
What We're Reading
Feb
18
2021
A Famous Black Hole Gets a Massive Update, The New York Times
Feb
17
2021
Thunderstorms Spew Out Gamma Rays — These Scientists Want to Know Why, Nature
Researchers in Japan are enlisting an army of citizens to explore how storms on Earth create extreme bursts of radiation.
Quantum Network Is Step Towards Ultrasecure Internet, Nature
Experiment connects three devices with entangled photons, demonstrating a key technique that could enable a future quantum internet.
Jan
14
2021
Can an AI Predict the Language of Viral Mutation? Wired
Computational biologists used an algorithm meant to model human language to instead predict how viruses could evolve to evade the immune system.
Science in Action: Gravitational Waves and Black Holes, BBC
The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) announced it may have detected new kinds of gravitational waves caused by colliding supermassive black holes. Chiara Mingarelli, guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics, explains why this is such an exciting discovery.
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