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Mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose

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Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose is one of the world's most prominent theoretical physicists who in 1965 produced the mathematics that showed how stars collapse to form black holes.

Portrait of Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei

Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton

Werner Heisenberg

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Werner Heisenberg

Cosmic microwave background

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Cosmic microwave background

A crepe being made

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How to make the perfect crêpe according to fluid dynamics

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General_relativity

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General relativity

Star Trek

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How Star Trek’s warp drives touch on one of physics' biggest mysteries

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What is quantum field theory?

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What is quantum field theory?

Black holes

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Black holes

Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to see directly, and so astronomers have had to use a variety of clever techniques to confirm that they actually exist.

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Are there multiple universes?

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Dark matter

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Bizarre pentaquark turns out to be a new kind of subatomic 'molecule'

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Space

We've seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own

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