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Researchers verify ‘extremely strange’ black hole physics

A team of researchers claims to have verified a decades-old theory that energy can be created by black holes. Scientists at the University of Glasgow School of Physics and Astronomy set out to validate Roger Penrose’s work in 1969. They used sound waves in an attempt to support “extremely strange …

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Lots of drama but little certainty in the Kentucky and New York primaries

One after another, left-wing challengers faced New York headlines, including Representative Gregory Meeks, chairman of the Queens Democratic Party; Representative Yvette Clarke, who faced a number of upstart candidates in Brooklyn; and Representative Carolyn Maloney, who represents parts of three boroughs of New York City. Jerrold Nadler, the chair of …

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You could generate power by hanging garbage in a black hole

Revisiting the classics In 1969, physicist Roger Penrose theorized that space civilizations could generate power by hanging objects in a black hole. For decades, the idea was impossible to test because we have no way of traveling to a black hole, or even surviving the trip. But now a team …

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