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Maximiliano Isi

2 articles · 7 co-authors · latest: 2026-05-26

Magnetic Brakes for Cosmic Spinning Tops

Scientists simulated the birth of black holes from massive stars and saw that magnetic fields act as a cosmic brake. A strong field slows the hole's spin, a weak one spins it up to near-light speed. This explained why detectors occasionally see pairs of heavyweight black holes, like the record-break
arXiv:2508.15887 · 2025-08-21

Gravitational Waves Leave an Eternal Imprint

Traveling through the cosmos, gravitational waves don’t just shake it—they leave an irreversible shift, a microscopic deformation in the fabric of reality. This memory effect, predicted by Einstein, has so far eluded measurement. Astrophysicists used a special method of stacking data from many obser
arXiv:2605.27500 · 2026-05-26