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Matter | Physics

What Dark Matter Needs Are New Kinds of Experiments

After 30 years and no results, it’s time to support more entrepreneurial physicists.

From Issue 069 Chapter Three by Juan Collar

Three decades have passed since the first direct search for dark matter, a modest attempt at recycling the data from a particle detector originally built for another purpose. This…

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Matter | Physics

How to Get Close to a Black Hole

Want to understand the most mysterious object in the universe? Make one at home.

From Issue 069 Chapter Two by Grace Lindsay

An Introduction to the Black Hole InstituteFittingly, the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) was founded 100 years after Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein’s equations for general relativity—a…

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Matter | Physics

How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered

Astronomers turned a fantastic concept into reality.

From Issue 069 Chapter One by Mark J. Reid

An Introduction to the Black Hole InstituteFittingly, the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) was founded 100 years after Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein’s equations for general relativity—a…

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Matter | Physics

Paradox Is Illuminating the Black Hole

How reconciling opposites is driving the science of black holes forward.

From Issue 068 Chapter Five by Gabriel Lynch

An Introduction to the Black Hole InstituteFittingly, the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) was founded 100 years after Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein’s equations for general relativity—a…

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Matter | Physics

What Impossible Meant to Feynman

Physicist Paul Steinhardt remembers a great mentor and scientist.

From Issue 068 Chapter Five by Paul J. Steinhardt

Impossible! The word resonated throughout the large lecture hall. I had just finished describing a revolutionary concept for a new type of matter that my graduate student, Dov Levine,…

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Matter | Physics

How Black Holes Nearly Ruined Time

Quantum mechanics rescued our understanding of past and future from the black hole.

From Issue 068 Chapter Four by Andrew Turner & Alex Tinguely

An Introduction to the Black Hole InstituteFittingly, the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) was founded 100 years after Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein’s equations for general relativity—a…

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Matter | Physics

The Strangeness of Black Holes

From quantum information to the Schwarzschild radius.

From Issue 068 Chapter Three by Enrico Brehm

An Introduction to the Black Hole InstituteFittingly, the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) was founded 100 years after Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein’s equations for general relativity—a…

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Matter | Astronomy

The Woman Who Reinvented the Moon

A MacArthur “genius grant” winner writes a new lunar origin story.

From Issue 066 Chapter Two by Brian Gallagher

Sarah Stewart is living her ideal life—and it just got sweeter. The University of California, Davis planetary physicist recently won a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, famously and…

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