Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# space
Imagine stars millions of times larger than the Sun powered by black holes. It sounds too bizarre to be true, but scientists think they may be responsible for today’s universe.
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Some of the largest galaxies in the cosmos aren’t creating new stars. Now scientists finally think they know why.
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No, we didn’t create a microscopic warp bubble. But we may be getting closer and closer to actually doing it.
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When stars get too close to each other the encounters can end in cannibalism, massive explosions, and even parasitic infestations.
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Neutron stars’ thunder is usually stolen by black holes, but these bizarre objects living on the edge of physics create plenty of fascinating phenomena all on their own.
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We know that black holes are bizarre. We know they exist. We even have a picture of one. But what exactly are they?
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For the first time, an AI was trained how to simulate a universe 600 million light years across. Does how fast it was able to do it and how well it understood its task tell us something profound about the cosmos?
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The late physicist Stephen Hawking predicted that black holes evaporate as its massive tidal forces interfere with quantum particles. Now, experiments are starting to confirm his predictions.
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If you really want to understand space, you need to understand black holes. Although, to be fair, understanding them is still very much a work in progress…
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The Event Horizon Telescope’s image of M87* is so good that theorists thought it was too good to be true.