Tag: Physics
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Black holes on the Russian Front
A short story of a scientist soldier Honored Mr. Einstein, In order to be able to verify your gravitational theory, I have brought myself nearer to your work on the perihelion of Mercury, and occupied myself with the problem solved with the First Approximation. Thereby, I found myself in a state of great confusion. But…
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The M87 blackhole and why it is not a discovery.
A Human Collaboration Collaborating from all over the world, several telescopes working altogether, from the United States and Germany to China and Japan, this is indeed a human collaboration, a scientific community coming together, driven by their curiosity and knowledge to uncover the true form of a black hole, and a true form they obtained,…
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Dark Matter vs Mond, a tug of war.
Title: Absence of a fundamental acceleration scale in galaxies Authors: Davi C. Rodrigues, Valerio Marra, Antonino del Popolo, and Zahra Davari First Author’s institution: Federal University of Espírito Santo Status: Published in Nature; closed access A very brief history of Gravity When Vera Rubin made her discovery on galaxy rotations back in the 70’s, she knew she was onto something that…
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LIGO’s Real Challenge.
arXiv Title: The Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO Detectors at the Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Whether you’ve heard about the binary neutron star merger that was discovered last year or not, a new era of astronomy has opened, the multi-messenger astronomy, after scientists at LIGO and VIRGO have been able to detect both gravitational…