Scientists are using black holes and quantum computing to find out.
What happens inside a black hole — and how does whatever goes on inside relate to the universe outside it? It's a mystery that has evaded scientists for decades. It's also a mystery that could also redefine how we think about the nature of the universe. In a paper published in the journal PRX Quantum on Feb. 10, physicists applied quantum computers and machine learning — the computational technology that powers facial recognition software and natural language processing — to test a possible connection. Black holes play by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which governs the universe on large scales. Tiny particles outside of black holes play by the rules of the Standard Model of particle physics, which outlines the universe at the absolute tiniest scales. There's little overlap and a lot of disagreement between the two systems. "Connecting the two different theories is a longstanding issue in physics — something people have been trying to do since the last century," Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan and RIKEN in Japan, and first author of the paper, said in a statement. Read more...
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