Black hole merger challenges our understanding of black hole formation(gizmodo.com)

47 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 42 comments

Cosmic simulation reveals how black holes grow and evolve(caltech.edu)

58 points by gmays 2 years ago | 39 comments

Caltech's Space Solar Power Demonstrator Wirelessly Transmits Power in Space(caltech.edu)

21 points by belter 3 years ago | 2 comments

Edward C. Stone, 1936-2024(caltech.edu)

91 points by dangle1 2 years ago | 5 comments

SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket(space.com)

390 points by busymom0 5 months ago | 255 comments

News coverage of SpaceX launching the first test flight of its third-generation Starship v3 megarocket, with an NBC News video of the launch.

Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission(caltech.edu)

58 points by geox 2 years ago | 101 comments

Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time(nature.com)

382 points by throw0101c 3 years ago | 180 comments

Nature news article from 29 June 2023 reporting the first detection of low-frequency 'monster' gravitational waves via pulsar timing.

Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole(port.ac.uk)

705 points by zaik 1 year ago | 563 comments

University of Portsmouth blog post in which Professor Enrique Gaztanaga proposes a theory that the Big Bang may have occurred inside a black hole.

LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed(theregister.com)

341 points by rntn 1 year ago | 479 comments

The Register news article on Los Angeles County wildfires forcing about 70,000 evacuations and the closure of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.

Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request(newpipe.net)

584 points by the-scrabi 3 years ago | 248 comments

NewPipe blog announcement that newpipe.net was removed from Google search results following a DMCA takedown request.