Galaxy Zoo DESI: large-scale bars as a secular mechanism for triggering AGNarxiv.org Despite the evidence that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) co-evolve with their host galaxy, and that most of the growth of these SMBHs occurs via merger-free processes, the underlying mechanisms...
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What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp...arxiv.org Despite originating in science fiction, warp drives have a concrete description in general relativity, with Alcubierre first proposing a spacetime metric that supported faster-than-light travel....
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