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Sauron’s singularity: Sucking in light but lighting up the universe
When heavier stars run out of hydrogen to fuse into helium, the fusion reactions that keep the stars from imploding due to their own gravity become more difficult (as they infeasibly fuse helium into heavier elements) and eventually stop happening. At … Continue reading
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Tagged angular resolution, dust rings, Eye of Sauron, interferometry, Keck Telescopes, NGC 4151, supermassive black holes
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Feeling the pulse of the space-time continuum
Humans have known about the force of gravity since ancient times. Yet, we are still exploring its true nature, how it works, and why it works the way it does. Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, binary pulsars, classical physics, general theory of relativity, gravitational waves, IndIGO, interferometry, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, LIGO India, wave physics
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