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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a mysterious new class of extragalactic fast radio transients whose nature is presently unknown. Here I provide a detailed review of FRB phenomenology and…
Much remains to be understood about the origin and evolution of our universe's largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs).
Three separate worldsheet computations illustrate string theoretic aspects of AdS3/CFT2 duality: (1) Hawking radiation of winding strings; (2) BPS fivebrane “stars” near the black hole threshold;…
The development of classical electromagnetism and quantum electrodynamics are highpoints of nineteenth and twentieth century physics, respectively.
Pioneered in the 1950s by Hanbury Brown and Twiss, intensity interferometry refers to the correlation of light intensities incident on two telescopes.