Alexandru Lupsasca and Michael Johnson won the physics prize for their work on photon spheres — weird rings of light around black holes that may reveal a theory of quantum gravity.
"Oscars® of Science" Awards $3 Million Prizes for Advances against Cancer, Cystic Fibrosis, Parkinson's Disease; Deep Insights into Quantum Field Theory and Differential Geometry SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the winners of the 2024 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring an esteemed group of the world's most brilliant minds for impactful scientific discoveries, including.
"You can study the holes between the galaxies similarly to the way you would study the structure of materials,” says Princeton theoretical chemist Salvatore Torquato. His new paper with astrophysicist Oliver Philcox offers new tools for understanding complicated structures from the atomic level to the Universe itself.
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