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Physicists think prime numbers may shape black hole cores

What if the deepest part of a black hole is not defined only by crushed matter and broken spacetime, but by the logic of prime numbers? That question has moved from mathematical curiosity to a serious ...
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in nature. They warp space and time in extreme ways and contain a mathematical impossibility, a singularity—an infinitely hot and dense object ...