The mystery of how supermassive black holes merge
However, modeling has shown that it is hard to scatter enough stars Toward black holes solving the last-parsec problem.Alternatively, there may be a small disk of gas around each black…
Mathematicians reject the 'bunkbed conjecture'
His result, he said, shows the importance of not taking anything for granted noga aloneA mathematician at Princeton. “We have to be skeptical even about things that intuitively have a…
Scientists establish the best algorithm for traversing the map
“It's a great algorithm,” said eric demaineA computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "It's very fast, simple and easy to implement."To put this process into practice, you'll need…
The incredible power of quantum memory
original version Of this story appeared in quanta magazine,It is not easy to study quantum systems – collections of particles that obey the counter-intuitive rules of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg's uncertainty…