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Lets Talk About Black Hole Singularities

Popular Physics 2018-05-18 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory
Authors: Abraham Loeb
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Abstract

Does the collision of black hole singularities imprint an observable quantum signature on the resulting gravitational wave signal?

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@article{arxiv.1805.05865,
  title  = {Lets Talk About Black Hole Singularities},
  author = {Abraham Loeb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.05865},
  year   = {2018}
}

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3 pages, to be published in Scientific American

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