QIS tagged posts

Scientists find a Common Thread Linking Subatomic Color Glass Condensate and Massive Black Holes

Black holes with dimensions of billions of kilometers (left, as imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope) share features with a dense state of subatomic gluons created in collisions of atomic nuclei (right).
Black holes with dimensions of billions of kilometers (left, as imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope) share features with a dense state of subatomic gluons created in collisions of atomic nuclei (right).
Images courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (left) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (right).

Physicists show that black holes and dense state of gluons–the ‘glue’ particles that hold nuclear matter together–share common features. Atomic nuclei accelerated close to the speed of light become dense walls of gluons known as color glass condensate (CGC). Recent analysis shows that CGC shares features with black holes, enormous conglomerates of gravitons that exert gravitational force across the universe...

Read More