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Arezki Amiri@The Daily Galaxy ?Great Discoveries Channel - 55d
Google's new quantum chip, Willow, has achieved a significant milestone by exponentially reducing errors while scaling with more qubits, tackling a key challenge in quantum error correction. This breakthrough allows the system to maintain its quantum state and achieve more accurate computations. The Willow chip also completed a benchmark calculation in under five minutes, a feat that would take today’s fastest supercomputers an estimated 10 septillion years, vastly exceeding the age of the universe, showcasing a remarkable leap in processing speed. This advancement moves quantum computing closer to practical and commercially relevant applications.
Willow is a 105 qubit superconducting chip that has demonstrated a new level of error correction. The chip incorporates a fault-tolerant architecture and uses surface codes and improved qubit connectivity to mitigate noise and enhance coherence times. With this milestone, Google has also demonstrated that the more qubits it uses in Willow, the more they reduce errors. This achievement, known as being "below threshold", is a major milestone in quantum error correction that the field has pursued for almost 30 years, opening up the prospect of real time error correction on superconducting quantum systems.
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@mars.nasa.gov - 67d
NASA Goddard has released a stunning visualization of two black holes, millions of times the mass of our sun, orbiting each other and bending the light around them. This breathtaking animation provides a glimpse into the complex dynamics of these celestial giants. Meanwhile, new research suggests that a previously unknown type of dark matter may be key to understanding how supermassive black holes merge, a process that has long puzzled astrophysicists. These merging events, the source of gravitational waves detected by pulsar timing arrays, are believed to involve black holes overcoming a significant hurdle in the final stages of their approach.
The discovery of more black holes in the early universe than previously reported offers crucial insights into the formation of supermassive black holes. Scientists are still piecing together how the first black holes formed soon after the Big Bang, but these findings help to illuminate the process. A separate study highlights an unusually voracious black hole, LID-568, consuming material at a rate 40 times the theoretical limit, further contributing to our understanding of supermassive black hole growth. This black hole, observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, existed a mere 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. On a different front, NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars continues its exploration. Recent discoveries include a flat rock in the Pico Turquino region deemed worthy of in-depth analysis. The rover's abrasion tool has already prepared the rock for detailed examination using UV and X-ray spectroscopy, which will shed light on its mineral composition. These findings add to the growing body of knowledge about the geological history of Mars, offering more pieces to the puzzle of its past.
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