Computer model helps explain how LIGO’s black holes formed
COMPAS points theory behind gravitational wave detections in the right direction
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Supermassive black hole was ejected by gravitational waves
Collision sent billion-Sun-sized object speeding away from galactic core
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Flash Physics: Star in tight orbit around black hole, nanocubes detect nitrogen dioxide, Born’s rule prevails
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
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A tour de force of the cosmos
The line between scientific idealism and scientific realism is blurry, as all scientific endeavours are affected by human bias, says Lionel London
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Flash Physics: Stray black hole spotted, new urban wind turbine, Mark Walport to lead new UK science agency
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
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Dark energy emerges when energy conservation is violated
Alternative explanation for accelerating expansion of the universe
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Decoding the quantum horizon
Patrick Hayden and Robert Myers describe how “qubits” may hold the key to quantum gravity
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Robust defence of string theory wins Physics World’s 2016 Book of the Year
Why String Theory? by Joseph Conlon is our choice for the year's best popular-physics book, while Cosmos: the Infographic Book of Space by Stuart Lowe and Ch...
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Flash Physics: Glitch crashed Mars lander, Microsoft hires quantum stars, cosmic speed test for light
Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics
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Is the universe a sponge?
J Richard Gott’s book on the large-scale topology of the universe goes beyond a “Cosmology 101” pseudo-history, writes Martin Bucher
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