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This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole’s event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object’s gravitational grip. The black hole’s powerful g

Stephen Hawking: Escape from Black Holes is Possible with 'Soft Hair'

A new study shows how not all is lost that enters a black hole, as any information that enters can be retained by "soft hair" in the event horizon.

Tiny red cloud to the right of center is the Bose-Einstein condensate of supercold atoms.

AI Recreates Nobel Prize Winning Experiment

Researchers created an AI algorithm that recreated an Nobel Prize winning experiment successfully in under one hour.

Einstein

Celebrating 100 Years of Einstein's Genius and General Relativity

PBS just released a new show called "Inside Einstein's Mind" explaining how he came up wih the theory of general relativity and the inner workings of the universe.

This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters.

New Dark Disc Theory Could Explain Why Humans Exist

A cosmologist and physicist from Harvard University proposes a new theory how dark matter played a crucial role in the existence of humans.

Frustrated magnets

Physicicts Decipher "Frustrated Magnets" Using the Hall Effect

ost physicists thought it would be impossible to see such behavior in non-charged, or neutral particles like those in frustrated magnets.

Laser Inventor Charles Townes Dies at 99

The invention of laser improved applications in medicine and astronomy.

Researchers Explain Champagne Bubbles

Wondering why there's bubbles in your champagne?

Credit cards

Quantum Mechanics will soon Protect Personal Data

Uncrackable quantum authentication uses the unique quantum properties of light.

Large Hadron Collider

CERN's Powerful Large Hadron Collider to Operate Again in March 2015

LHC will son be back in business opening new discoveries in physics.

Another shield protecting the Earth

Little Known Space Shield Defends Earth from Killer Radiation

It's almost like these electrons are running into a glass wall in space

LHC beam pipe

CERN Scientists Discover Two New Subatomic Particles

These particles are made from three quarks bound together by a strong force.

GPS atomic clocks

Dark Matter Can Apparently be Detected by GPS

A new study reveals that the elusive dark matter can now be detected using time glitches in GPS satellite systems.

Dr. Fabiola Gianotti

CERN Chooses First Woman Leader

She will be the 16th director-general and the first woman to lead the research center.

Stephen Hawking

"God Particle" Could Destroy the Universe, Hawking Claims

He warns about this probable catastrophe in a new book, Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space.

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