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  • The Wafold: A Geometric Termination Proposal for Black Holes 

    Viaña, Javier (2025-10-17)
    This research suggests a new interpretation of black holes in which the event horizon represents the termination of physical reality. It considers the possibility that, when curvature reaches a critical limit, the ...

  • The Boundawall: A Proposal on the Nature of Black Holes 

    Viaña, Javier (2025-10-15)
    This research suggests a new interpretation of black holes in which the event horizon represents the termination of physical reality. In this view, when curvature approaches a critical threshold, the three-dimensional ...

  • A Neural Network based Search for Earth Analogs in Kepler Data 

    Viaña, Javier; Vanderburg, Andrew; Fang, Mason (The 2023 Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science Symposium (ERES VIII @ Yale), 2023-06-19)
    Kepler was designed to find Earth-sized planets in Earth-like orbits, but its catalogue of Earth-analogue planet candidates is contaminated by instrumental artifacts. To try to solve this problem, we have developed a neural ...