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5 September 2015
Astronomy

At http://phys.org/print360468954.html … black holes are strange affairs. They refuse to allow anything to escape from out of their clutches – even light itself. No wonder they are invisible. It is said that black holes appear to know what happens in the future – a sort of holey oracle. This is in order to form in the first place – if you can get your head around that idea. In a new paper in Physical Review Letters, 'A New Area Law in General Relativity' (Sept 2015) we are told a new law implies thermodynamic time runs backwards inside black holes.

It came about by viewing space time as a hologram

At http://phys.org/print360491931.html … worm holes are cosmic tunnels that can connect two distant regions of the universe – as popularised in Star Trek. Scientists in Barcelona have designed and created in the laboratory the first experimental worm hole that they think connects two regions of space magnetically.

At http://phys.org/print360573202.html … we are back to Pluto and the discovery of two further moons, or satellites, Nix and Hydra.

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