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Graduate Can anyone please expand on white holes?

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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Dark Matter and Its Relationship with Black Holes

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Graduate Does dark matter fall into a black hole, and create radiation

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Graduate Can Some Galaxies Travel Faster Than Light?

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Graduate Could Black Holes Have Created Our Universe?

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Graduate Can Spacetime Equations Be Interfered With to Propel Mass?

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Undergrad How Much Longer Does an Atomic Clock Run on the Moon Compared to Earth?

  • rowbot555
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Graduate Dark matter really due to stars having some charge?

  • PAllen
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Graduate Why didnt hubble discover that universe is accelerating?

  • humanist rho
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High School Explain Kepler's 3rd Law of Planetary Motion

  • AstrophysicsX
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Graduate Orbit of planet have to be a conic section

  • sorce
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Undergrad Could a bullet shot from a spaceship orbiting Earth escape the planet?

  • DrZoidberg
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Graduate Is it possible that the sum total of everything is nothing?

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Undergrad Why Do Physicists Consider Black Holes Something?

  • nukeman
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Are the Wonders of the Universe waiting to be discovered?

  • ehilge
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Graduate A Black Hole's Event Horizon: No Particles Have Crossed...Yet

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High School Why planets move ant-clockwise direction

  • rick112
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Graduate Can a 1kg Black Hole Be Manipulated and Moved?

  • Jarfi
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High School Is the Universe a Giant Russian Doll?

  • stany
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Graduate Was There Time Before the Big Bang?

  • dm4b
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Graduate What is the Energy of the Big Bang?

  • cansay27
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Graduate Are Parallel Universes the Key to Understanding the Multiverse Theory?

  • shyam1993
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Undergrad Does Time have a mathematical equation or Law?

  • nukeman
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Undergrad Space Junk Removal: Is Laser Technology the Answer?

  • satya98
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Graduate Has this idea been explored? Why the universe expands

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Graduate Matter-antimatter imbalance - how do we know?

  • technobot
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High School Are Stars Limited to Galaxies or Can They Exist in Intergalactic Space?

  • trentt
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Graduate Would an object appear frozen while crossing into the threshold

  • Cosmo Novice
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High School What can I do if I study astrophysics?

  • Rock4231
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Stargazing What's a good, affordable telescope for someone who's never owned one

  • 1MileCrash
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Undergrad How Does the Angle of Impact Affect the Depth of Meteorite Craters?

  • McHeathen
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Undergrad Cosmological Inflationary Models

  • cansay27
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Graduate How is it possible the universe is infinite?

  • G3n3sis1
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Graduate Can anyone please suggest me a project topic?

  • humanist rho
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Graduate Objects as L3 and L4 at once - possible?

  • Shraa
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Is life on other planets limited by the elements present?

  • TheJoninator
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What Are the Dangers of Space Travel?

  • TheoryMan
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Its crazy to think its all actually out there

  • stany
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Darkness-Free Day: A Sign of Jesus's Birth?

  • moonman239
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High School Physics Projects for Teenagers - Charles's Quest

  • Cbray
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Graduate What Is the Physical Reality of Space?

  • justwondering
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Graduate What is the Definition of the Wave Zone in Potential Calculations?

  • Radiohannah
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High School Easter dating spreadsheet for Excel/OpenOffice

  • moonman239
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Undergrad The Doppler Effect: Near and Far Galaxies

  • jerome951000
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Graduate Has Bekenstein's MOND Paper on Dark Matter Alternatives Been Fully Understood?

  • inflector
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Graduate Required mass for hydrogen burning in stars

  • ted1986
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Rotating Universe: Instant Axis Rotation Proven!

  • RichyRich
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Graduate Calabi-Yau Writing Fiction Question

  • Misericorde
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New Learner Seeking Audio Lectures & Books to Expand Knowledge

  • capt stevie
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Stargazing Telescope Limitations: What to Know

  • Ryan_m_b
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Graduate What Does the Expansion and Inflation of the Universe Mean for Quantum Physics?

  • Cajun
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Graduate What Happens If an Object Exceeds the Speed of Light?

  • Cajun
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High School Distance to the Moon: NASA's Measurements and Findings

  • Bjarne
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Graduate Does Our Solar System's Orbit Through the Galaxy Cause Magnetic Pole Reversals?

  • korben dallas
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High School What are Supernovae and Hypernovae? Any resources or insights?

  • EMLAY
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Graduate April is the time to see where the solar system is going (at 370 km/second)

  • marcus
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Undergrad Calculating Mass-Kepler's 3rd Law

  • winterrose
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Graduate Cosmology With Sunyaev-zeldovich Effect

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Graduate Age versus size of the universe

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Graduate Black Hole Mass Accretion Temperature

  • purple_wave
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Undergrad Black Holes and Gravity: Answers to Your Questions

  • The Cow King
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Stargazing Zhumell Z8 Dobsonian. 8 inch reflector

  • Who Am I
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Graduate Calculating Luminosity Distance in an Empty Cosmology

  • jc09
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Graduate Anthropic Principle: Opposition & Logic Explored

  • 1dominator1
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Graduate Astronomy in UV and X-ray Spectrum

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Undergrad Transition A produces light with a wavelength of 400 nm

  • Votz
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Graduate Is our universe finite or infinite?

  • Space Drifter
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Graduate Falsification of eternal inflation

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Graduate How Can I Calculate the Distance of an Object in an Elliptical Orbit Over Time?

  • Texas2011
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Undergrad Using a straw in a space capsule

  • starfish99
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Undergrad Understand Phase-Space Density: Basics & Concepts

  • Shaybay92
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Graduate I got a question about dark energy

  • cpamieta
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Graduate Are we accelerating in the universe?

  • instanton
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Undergrad Astrophysics Reading Suggestions for College Students

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Graduate Argument that all computable universes are real

  • StatusX
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Graduate How Do High Redshift Galaxies Differ from Low Redshift Galaxies?

  • skydivephil
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Graduate Future of the Universe: What Happens After 10^(trillion) Years?

  • Jonnyb42
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Graduate Understanding Vacuum Energy Density in Relation to Universe Expansion

  • TrickyDicky
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Graduate Dark Matter Halo: Modeling Rotational Effect on Galaxy V(r)

  • Creebe
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Graduate Does Light Mass Increase a Black Hole?

  • PerenialQuest
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Graduate Is physics mathematically deducible?

  • thiazole
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Graduate Antimatter Universe: Same or Different?

  • abuguchie
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Graduate How can the universe be infinite?

  • steveclay
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Undergrad Gravity and the Formation of Stars

  • daisey
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Graduate Max Entropy: Is Infinite Chaos Possible?

  • Rooster1981
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Graduate What are the chances of the Big Bang producing us?

  • Seraph316
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Graduate What is the difference between inflation and expansion?

  • andrewkirk
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Undergrad Teslescopes see the past, but which?

  • trini
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Graduate Black holes and only photons going in

  • stanjones
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Graduate The entropy of the universe? (attempts to define gravitational entropy)

  • marcus
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Graduate Susskind on the cosmological constant.

  • Freeman Dyson
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Graduate How do branching ratios affect neutrino fluxes at Earth?

  • ted1986
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Graduate What is the impact of life on Earth and its environment?

  • korben dallas
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Graduate Psr b1913+16: Impact of Periastron Epoch Change on Orbital Period Rate

  • TrickyDicky
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Graduate Cosmology's standard model: is science becoming a belief ?

  • Andrew Mason
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Graduate If wormholes connect two areas in spacetime, wouldn't that require 5

  • Jonnyb42
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Graduate Friedmann Equation demonstration - Liddle

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Graduate Inflaton Field, Cosmological Constants and Spacetime

  • rogerl
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Graduate Mechanism for Gammaray Bursts (computer sim shows neutron star merger works)

  • marcus
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Graduate Can You See a Parallel Universe Through a Black Hole?

  • cashflow
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