{"id":149576,"date":"2022-11-06T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/black-holes-in-quantum-states-have-surprisingly-weird-masses"},"modified":"2022-11-06T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T15:24:43","slug":"black-holes-in-quantum-states-have-surprisingly-weird-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/black-holes-in-quantum-states-have-surprisingly-weird-masses","title":{"rendered":"Black Holes in Quantum States Have Surprisingly Weird Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-holes-in-quantum-states-have-surprisingly-weird-masses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the better part of a century, quantum physics and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">general theory of relativity<\/a> have been a marriage on the rocks. Each perfect in their own way, the two just can\u2019t stand each other when in the same room.<\/p>\n<p>Now a mathematical proof on the quantum nature of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black holes<\/a> just might show us how the two can reconcile, at least enough to produce a grand new theory on how the Universe works on cosmic and microcosmic scales.<\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists has mathematically demonstrated a weird quirk concerning how these mind-bendingly dense objects might exist in a state of quantum superposition, simultaneously occupying a spectrum of possible characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the better part of a century, quantum physics and the general theory of relativity have been a marriage on the rocks. Each perfect in their own way, the two just can\u2019t stand each other when in the same room. Now a mathematical proof on the quantum nature of black holes just might show us [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}