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Don’t Let the Event Horizon Steal the Limelight, Save Some for the Ergosphere

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/04/2019

Many think the event horizon is a wondrous region...

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A Brief History of Black Holes

Ronak Gupta 17/04/2019

Black hole research started off as a purely theoretical...

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What Albert Einstein Meant When he Said ‘God Does Not Play Dice’

Jim Baggott 24/11/2018

Einstein’s early experience of Judaism may have coloured his...

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Gravitational Waves From Colliding Black Holes Detected for Fourth Time – With Many Firsts

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/09/2017

We are getting a glimpse of the power of...

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When Birds Flock Around a Sphere, Beautiful Things Happen

Vasudevan Mukunth 09/09/2017

A new study has found that flocking on curved...

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Knabenphysik At 92: Remembering the Boys’ Club of Early Quantum Mechanics

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/01/2017

Pauli's exclusion principle turns 92 this month. But when...

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What is the Point of Theoretical Physics?

Alexander Lenz 07/10/2016

There's a good reason you should care about the...