{"id":97166,"date":"2019-10-08T00:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T07:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/are-black-holes-made-of-dark-energy-error-made-when-applying-einsteins-equations-to-model-growth-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2019-10-08T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T07:02:36","slug":"are-black-holes-made-of-dark-energy-error-made-when-applying-einsteins-equations-to-model-growth-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/are-black-holes-made-of-dark-energy-error-made-when-applying-einsteins-equations-to-model-growth-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Are Black Holes Made of Dark Energy? Error Made When Applying Einstein\u2019s Equations to Model Growth of the Universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-black-holes-made-of-dark-energy-error-made-when-applying-einsteins-equations-to-model-growth-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa<\/a> researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein\u2019s equations to model the growth of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists usually assume that a cosmologically large system, such as the universe, is insensitive to details of the small systems contained within it. Kevin Croker, a postdoctoral research fellow in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phys.hawaii.edu\/\">Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/a>, and Joel Weiner, a faculty member in the <a href=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/\">Department of Mathematics<\/a>, have shown that this assumption can fail for the compact objects that remain after the collapse and explosion of very large stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 80 years, we\u2019ve generally operated under the assumption that the universe, in broad strokes, was not affected by the particular details of any small region,\u201d said Croker. \u201cIt is now clear that general relativity can observably connect collapsed stars\u2014regions the size of Honolulu\u2014to the behavior of the universe as a whole, over a thousand billion billion times larger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein\u2019s equations to model the growth of the universe. Physicists usually assume that a cosmologically large system, such as the universe, is insensitive to details of the small systems contained within it. Kevin Croker, a postdoctoral [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97166","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}