Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab Imagine taking a star with twice the mass of the Sun and crushing it down to the size of Manhattan. The result would be a neutron star—one of the densest objects found anywhere in the Universe. In fact, they exceed the density of any material found naturally on …
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Advanced artificial intelligence has identified thousands of possible “gravitational lenses” — warps in space-time predicted by Albert Einstein — promising to enhance our understanding of dark matter and the evolution of galaxies. Einstein realized that mass warps space, and massive galaxies swear galaxy clusters can distort space around them to such a degree that they …
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The gravitational constant describes the intrinsic strength of gravity, and can be used to calculate the gravitational pull between two objects. Also known as “Big G” or Gthe gravitational constant was first defined by Isaac Newton in his Law of Universal Gravitation formulated in 1680. It is one of the fundamental constants of nature, with …
Paul M. Sutter (opens in new tab) is an astrophysicist at SUNY (opens in new tab) Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of “Ask a Spaceman (opens in new tab)“ swear”Space Radio (opens in new tab),” and author of “How t (opens in new tab)o Die in Space.” Astronomers hope to use pulsars scattered …
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A few years ago, deep beneath the Apennine Mountains in Italy, a team of physicists hunted for flashes of light that just might suggest human consciousness is the product of gravitational forces. The fact they came up empty-handed doesn’t mean we’re all meat computers with no free will; it does make the quest for a …
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