Champaign-Urbana art lovers and physics enthusiasts alike gathered at the Link Art Gallery Monday evening to explore physics-themed projects created by students from academic backgrounds across the observable universe enrolled in PHYS 495/ART 499. The exhibition featured comics, sculptures, paintings and various other mediums covering topics from particle annihilation to black holes. Noreen Ahmed, junior.
Einstein published a new theory of gravity the theory of general relativity in 1915. It would transform our understanding of physics forever. But it’s far from perfect.
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General relativity makes very specific predictions about what black holes are and how they should appear, as shown in this simulation. GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER/JEREMY SCHNITTMAN
After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes or are they?
Jan. 7, 2021 , 1:45 PM
While working on his doctorate in theoretical physics in the early 1970s, Saul Teukolsky solved a problem that seemed purely hypothetical. Imagine a black hole, the ghostly knot of gravity that forms when, say, a massive star burns out and collapses to an infinitesimal point. Suppose you perturb it, as you might strike a bell. How does the black hole respond?