Meredith Fore

Articles by: Meredith Fore

The researchers simulated early galaxy formation in the early universe under three dark matter scenarios: a universe filled with cold dark matter (far left); warm dark matter (center); and fuzzy dark matter (far right).

Physicists Have Finally Seen Traces of a Long-Sought Particle. Here's Why That's a Big Deal.

By Meredith Fore published

It was predicted four decades ago, but only found now.

Black hole

Stephen Hawking Was Right: Black Holes Can Evaporate, Weird New Study Shows

By Meredith Fore published

In 1974, Stephen Hawking made one of his most famous predictions: that black holes eventually evaporate entirely.

An image of the Andromeda Galaxy captured with the Hyper-Suprime-Cam. A recent snapshot of Andromeda found only one signal that could have come from a medium-sized primordial black hole, or one that formed soon after the Big Bang.

One of Stephen Hawking's Most Famous Theories About Black Holes Just Suffered a Huge Blow

By Meredith Fore published

A groundbreaking search for Hawking's ancient black holes comes back empty-handed.

pond waves ripples in time

Physicists Reverse Time for Tiny Particles Inside a Quantum Computer

By Meredith Fore published

The "arrow of time" went backward inside this tiny quantum computer.

schrodinger-cat

Bizarre Physics Phenomenon Suggests Objects Can Be Two Temperatures at Once

By Meredith Fore published

Schrödinger's cat has a new friend: Schrödinger's thermometer.

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Dark Photons Probably Don't Exist, and If They Did, They'd Be Super Weird

By Meredith Fore published

A measurement of the fine structure constant puts significant limitations on the existence of these dark partners to ordinary light particles.

dark matter artist conception

Is Dark Matter Made Up of Mini Black Holes from the Big Bang?

By Meredith Fore published

Dark matter may actually be a scattering of primordial black holes that arose soon after the Big Bang as a result of instabilities in the Higgs field, according to a new theory.

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