This view, of the Taurus Molecular Cloud of gas taken with the ESA’s Herschel space…
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10 fun facts as Halley’s Comet makes its big comeback | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
This 1986 photograph of Halley’s comet, taken from Easter Island on March 8 of that…
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Ask Ethan: Is it possible that gravity isn’t quantum? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
Quantum gravity attempts to combine Einstein’s General theory of Relativity with quantum mechanics. Quantum corrections…
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“Singularities don’t exist,” claims black hole pioneer Roy Kerr | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
This visualization shows what the interior of a rotating (Kerr) black hole looks like, from…
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From anywhere in the Universe, any object that’s in free-fall will have its trajectory determined…
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What was it like when the last antimatter disappeared? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
Bubble chamber tracks from Fermilab, revealing the charge, mass, energy and momentum of the particles…
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What was it like when protons and neutrons formed? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2023
At high temperatures, large densities, or both, there are no stable baryons (combinations of three…
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What was it like when the Higgs gave particles mass? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2023
This reconstruction of particle tracks shows a candidate Higgs event in the ATLAS detector at…