black holes
Videos
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A Conflict of Principles
Stephen Hawking’s premise was sound; his math irrefutable. As matter falls into a black hole, quantum events cause it to emit particles. These particles—what became known as...
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How Much Information Exists in the Universe?
How can we measure all the information in the universe? Physicist Raphael Bousso explains how all information is bound by lightwaves that have traveled for billions of years since...
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What Is the Holographic Principle?
When Stephen Hawking elegantly described the relationship of quantum mechanics with black holes, he inadvertently opened the door to a radical possibility: that our universe, as...
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General Relativity
Physicist Brian Greene explains how Albert Einstein, wrestling with how exactly gravity works, originally formulated the general theory of relativity. The landmark breakthrough...
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Moth: Suffering for Science
WSF teams up with what The Wall Street Journal calls “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket,” The Moth, for an innovative series of unpredictable storytelling....
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Trailer: Icarus at the Edge of Time
What if Icarus traveled not to the sun but to a black hole? This 40-minute 62-piece orchestral work is a mesmerizing adaptation of Icarus at the Edge of Time, Brian Greene’s...
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Hawking Radiation
Remember that bet Stephen Hawking made with Kip Thorne in the 90s about whether information could escape a black hole? (No, not the infamous one wagered between the two physicists...
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Black Holes and Holographic Worlds
Black holes are gravitational behemoths that dramatically twist space and time. Recently, they’ve also pointed researchers to a remarkable proposal—that everything we see may...
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Will the LHC Kill Us?
When the Large Hadron Collider first came online, there was much disinformation and fear about the tremendous energy levels required to run the experiments. Most public concern...
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The Discovery of Black Holes
Today, mathematics is predicting the reality that there are extra dimensions beyond the three that humans can see, the existence of additional universes outside of the one that...
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Black Holes and Time
A black hole has such an enormous mass and gravitational force that it essentially collapses in on itself. But why does gravity work in that direction, instead of pushing objects...
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Black Holes
The popular image of a black hole is fairly uniform: a huge, massive disk in space that sucks in everything in its vicinity. It turns out, a black hole can be any size—there is...
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When Black Holes Collide
When two black holes spiral towards each other and collide, they produce powerful gravitational waves. Scientists do not know much about these waves right now, but within about a...
Blog Posts
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Ask Brian Greene: Conservation of Mass in Black Holes
When something falls into a black hole, where does its mass go?
