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A Question About Cosmology and a Theoretical Fifth Dimension

Question(s): Dear astronomy / physics student whose job it is to filter through the department in-box, I find when…

Question: How can you measure the mass of a black hole with radio waves? What is the mass of…

Question: What happens to black holes, pulsars, quasars, and white dwarfs at the end of their life cycles? —…

Question: Information says that the gravitational waves, recently detected by LIGO, correspond (according to Einstein theory equations) to the…

Question: A cosmological “what if ” Here’s my question: suppose for the sake of argument, the big bang happened…

Question: I googled this question while looking for an answer to something even more vague: what is a black…

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