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
It turns out there is life after stellar death. Say hello to zombie worlds, undead planets orbiting the most extreme objects in the universe.
# space
A new simulation says that black holes are eating neutron stars and lighting up our telescopes with mysterious bursts of energy.
# space
We know that black holes are bizarre. We know they exist. We even have a picture of one. But what exactly are they?
# space
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.
# podcast
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…
# space
The Event Horizon Telescope’s image of M87* is so good that theorists thought it was too good to be true.
# podcast
Just because the universe is dying doesn’t mean you and your civilization have to die with it, at least not if you’re ready to go stellar grave robbing.
# space
New observations of the center of our galaxy have, for the first time, revealed hotspots in the disk of chaotic gas orbiting our Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.
# space
Black holes aren’t just the densest, most massive objects in space. They might also be some of the fastest.
# science
After Interstellar, more and more representations of black holes are leaning towards scientific correctness. It may not sound like much, but it’s actually kind of a big deal.