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Table-Top-Sized Black Hole Created, World Mysteriously Still Exists
8:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Scientists have created a table-top-sized black hole that absorbs light. And yet we’re still here, and the world hasn’t collapsed. Clearly, my high-school science classes did not adequately explain black holes to me. More »
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Researchers Made Mistake, World Is Ending Sooner Than Expected
4:00PM Rosa Golijan | Supermassive black holes, heat death and entropy could be wonderful dinner conversation as you toast to the end of the universe. Not sure when it’ll happen, but based on some re-calculations of entropy in the universe, it’s sooner than we expected. More »
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‘Free-Floating’ Black Hole Responsible For One of Hubble’s Big Discoveries?
4:45AM Jack Loftus | Get Me Off This Rock is a distant memory by now, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t bring you word that one of space’s most mysterious phenomena is one step closer to being solved. More »
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Neutron Star Crusts Are 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel
2:00PM Dan Nosowitz | A teaspoon of this stuff would weigh 100 million tons, and the only thing more dense is a black hole. Space is weird. More »
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Physicists Believe Our Universe Is One Big Hologram, And They May Have Spotted the Pixels
12:14AM Mark Wilson | It’s not until you acknowledge the world’s greatest physicists do you realise how fundamentally useless our role here is. You and I will not uncover the secrets of the Universe. Luckily, someone’s working on it. More »
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LHC Webcams Depict Horrifyingly Singular Moment
1:00PM Wilson Rothman | In case you weren’t paranoid enough knowing that there’s a 22.5km particle accelerator complete with Black Hole Button currently operational on this, your most favourite of planets, here’s a dose of meta-reality that will make your palms even sweatier, a glimpse of live webcams monitoring the LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment. Once you’re sufficiently freaked out, you can share it with your most skittish and/or ignorant friends and family members, and watch them squirm with palpable existential terror. [Cyriak - Thanks Josh!] More »
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Large Hadron Collider Has Black Hole Button
6:20AM Jack Loftus | Though the Large Hadron Collider didn’t kill us when those crazy CERN scientists closed their eyes, said a prayer, recited a few theorems and switched it on for the first time, the secret is that it could have killed us. When they built the collider, the scientists installed a black-hole creation button. (The button is real, but it doesn’t actually do anything.) More »
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