Neutrinos light up hidden black holes
The team released an episode about IceCube and how neutrinos let astronomers trace cosmic rays and investigate black holes hidden from ordinary telescopes.
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PBS Space Time is a PBS Digital Studios science series hosted by astrophysicist Matt O’Dowd, exploring black holes, quantum mechanics, relativity, and the universe’s biggest questions.
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pbs.orgWatch the episodeWhy physics keeps returning to minus one twelfth
A new episode follows finite answers hidden in infinite sums, connecting the mathematics to the Casimir effect and string theory.
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Could the quantum vacuum behave like a crystal?
Matt explores a prediction that empty space can behave like a crystal under extreme conditions, and the evidence that might support it.
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A black hole that challenges the usual origin story
The show examines a possible primordial black hole and what a growing catalog of gravitational-wave detections can tell us about how black holes form.
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Putting dark energy surveys together
Matt compares DESI with the Dark Energy Survey and explains why combining different studies can reveal more than either study alone.
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