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Are America’s allies the holes in its export-control fence?

AMERICA MAKES no bones about wanting to stop China, its autocratic rival for geopolitical supremacy, from getting hold of advanced technology. Any day now...

Hidden supermassive black holes reveal their secrets through radio signals

Astronomers have found a striking link between the amount of dust surrounding a supermassive black hole and the strength of the radio emission produced...

At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable

In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr found a solution to Einstein’s equations that precisely described the spacetime outside what we now call a rotating...

Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic

But that insulation is being undone by climate change, which is heating the Arctic four times as fast as the rest of the planet....

Magnetic ‘balding’ of black holes saves general relativity prediction

Black holes aren't what they eat. Einstein's general relativity predicts that no matter what a black hole consumes, its external properties depend only on...

New study suggests supermassive black holes could form from dark matter

A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism for the creation of supermassive black holes from dark matter. The international team find that...

Don’t Tell Einstein, but Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’

Identical twins have nothing on black holes. Twins may grow from the same genetic blueprints, but they can differ in a thousand ways—from temperament...

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