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January 17, 2025

Hi, thank you for your interest in black holes! I should preface by saying that I will use quotation marks around some concepts Relativity makes a lot of things behave...

September 13, 2024

This is a very insightful question I'd be interested to know what Dr Schramm told you about it In any case, the answer is somewhat subtle I'll treat the gravitational case here,...

September 13, 2024

It is theorized that an island of nuclear stability exists in the 114-116 region of atomic mass (Note by Sara: I think you mean atomic number) I assume that even though we...

June 28, 2024

This is a great question! There are two reasons why we never see matter fall into a black hole The first reason is because of gravitational time dilation; if we dropped a clock...