Brian Koberlein

Astrophysicist and Author

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Signs of the Zodiacal
Zodiacal dust in exoplanetary systems may hinder our search for life on habitable exoplanets.
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And Not The Moon
A Jovian world orbiting a brown dwarf tests our definitions of planet and moon.
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New Spin on an Old Theory
A star that passes quite close to the supermassive black hole in our galaxy tests the limits of general relativity.
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Let It Ring
A new statistical model reveals more details about the ringdown period of merging black holes.
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Hall Pass
A new look at the cosmological constant in quantum gravity may help us understand why it’s small, but not zero.
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Numbered Days
A black hole doesn’t live forever. We now know how long until their days are numbered.
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The Quadratic Equation
In quadratic quantum gravity, cosmic inflation could arise naturally.
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Testing the Waves
We can now use the gravitational waves of black holes to test general relativity.