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Scientists Just Proved Einstein and Hawking Right About Black Holes

Scientists Just Proved Einstein and Hawking Right About Black Holes

Andrew Alpin

You’ve probably heard about black holes, those mysterious cosmic giants that devour everything in their path. What you might not know is that physicists just captured something extraordinary. They detected a collision between two black holes with such clarity that it finally confirmed predictions made decades ago by two of history’s greatest minds. This discovery ...

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A Dance of Gravity: Origins of Twin Hot Jupiters Revealed

Suhail Ahmed

Astronomers have been trying to figure out what “hot Jupiters” are for decades. These are gas giants that orbit very close to their stars and complete a full revolution in just a few hours. But their rarer cousins, double hot Jupiters, are even more mysterious. In a binary star system, two of these planets orbit ...