Claude reportedly solves two open black-hole physics problems, Anthropic posts paper
141_1337 · reddit · 2026-11-10
A Reddit post claims Claude settled a 23-year-old question about black hole formation in tiny-universe models and pinned down the exact limits of the 15-year-old spinless modular bootstrap method used to rule out quantum gravity theories, with the shown paper (contributed by Anthropic) reporting an exact ΛV ≈ 9.1266.
The paper's provenance statement says the main result was first obtained autonomously by an internal Claude research model, with public Claude Opus 5.5 independently reproducing it; Claude wrote the paper under brief physicist guidance. Note: claims are second-hand social media reports, not yet independently peer-reviewed.
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