Quantum gravity

Top arXiv papers from Week 39, 2020

Top arXiv papers from Week 39, 2020

This week’s entry is entirely dedicated to dark matter and ways of searching for or constraining its properties which I would define “off the beaten track”, ranging from using the first stars, to black hole shadows, to quantum gravity-inspired theoretical guiding principles. Enjoy!

Top arXiv papers from Week 22, 2020

Top arXiv papers from Week 22, 2020

This week’s entry covers tests of asymptotic safety from X-ray reflection spectroscopy, a proposal to search for a Planet 9 as a black hole via accretion flares, and the proposal of a chameleonic coupling of the Higgs to the inflaton to stabilize the electroweak vacuum in the early Universe. Enjoy!

Top arXiv papers from Week 4, 2020

Top arXiv papers from Week 4, 2020

In the fourth installment of my “Top arXiv papers of the week” column you can read about quantum foam, whether GW190425 is the first neutron star-black hole merger ever detected, the H0 tension and strong lensing time delays, how to efficiently parametrize the spacetime around black holes, and finally whether microlensing of quasars might point towards primordial black holes. Also, I will at least try to come up with a nice name for this blog before next week’s column!