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- Space & Physics
- March 20, 2012
Voyager 2 has entered the interstellar space, outside the Sun’s realm. Researchers Bill Kurth and Don Gurnett, at the University of Iowa, confirmed that on November 5, 2018, the spacecraft left the solar system and joined Voyager 1 in the interstellar medium. The research was published on November 4, 2019, on Nature Astronomy. The team
READ MOREGrab a book. Notice its length, width and thickness. They correspond, respectively, to the three dimensions of space and, we reasonably assume, to all objects in the three-dimensional space. As you flip through the book, you note that its pages have two sides – in fact, all objects around you are two-sided. It may slip
READ MOREThe first image of a black hole On April 2017, eight telescopes turned to the sky, pointed to a black hole and photographed it. Those were not ordinary photographies. The Event Horizon Telescopes (EHT) produce the highest resolution pictures ever known, 2000 times more precise than those produced by the Hubble telescope. For four days,
READ MOREPhotons pass throughout the twisted spacetime near black holes, changing their orbital angular momentum. What does that mean for quantum computing?
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