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Astronomers unsure what caused 'weird explosion' seen by Einstein Probe's X-ray eye
Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted ... is known as a tidal disruption event (TDE). However, EP240408A refused to conform ...
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Einstein Probe finds two stars that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other
The Einstein Probe telescope has spotted evidence of one star consuming matter from another.… The first clue that led to this discovery was an X-ray flash emanating from the Small Magellanic ...
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New recipe for gravity could unite Einstein's general relativity with quantum physics — and probe the dark universe
A new recipe for gravity could help solve some of the universe's greatest mysteries. It suggests that the concept of "quantum gravity" could arise from entropy, possibly solving puzzles put forth ...