A New 10-Year Plan for the Cosmos
An artist’s rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile. Astronomers propose linking it with another giant telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope, to create the Extremely Large Telescope project.Credit…Giant Magellan Telescope Organization A New 10-Year Plan for the Cosmos On astronomers’ wish list for the next decade: two giant telescopes and a space telescope to…
Static Black Holes Exert Pressure on Their Environment, Scientists Say
Static Black Holes Exert Pressure on Their Environment, Scientists Say In 1974, Stephen Hawking made the seminal discovery that black holes emit thermal radiation. Previous to that, black holes were believed to be inert. In new research, a duo of researchers from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sussex shows that black…
The Journey to Define Dimension
The Journey to Define Dimension he notion of dimension at first seems intuitive. Glancing out the window we might see a crow sitting atop a cramped flagpole experiencing zero dimensions, a robin on a telephone wire constrained to one, a pigeon on the ground free to move in two and an eagle in the air…