The Flame Nebula, shown here in a combination of X-ray data (from Chandra) and infrared…
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How ideas from physics drive AI: the 2024 Nobel Prize | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This illustration of a human brain was generated by DALL-E, a generative AI program, in…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #110 — Optical Interferometry | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This image shows the first of ten relocatable 1.4 meter telescopes arranged in a Y,…
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What created more light: the Big Bang or stars? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
For the first ~3 billion years of cosmic history, the star-formation rate rose and rose…
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Fastest spacecraft ever built to break its own speed record | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This illustration shows the Parker Solar Probe approaching perihelion: its closest approach to the Sun.…
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Ask Ethan: Is Earth the center of the Universe? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
A region of space devoid of matter in our galaxy reveals the Universe beyond, where…
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Shortest-lived quantum particles exhibit quantum entanglement, too | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Oct, 2024
This view of the inside of the ATLAS detector, taken when it was not operational,…
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Ask Ethan: Does space require dark energy in order to exist? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
While we conventionally think of quantum physics as bringing an inherent uncertainty and “quantum-ness” to…
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Longest, strongest black hole jets of all-time discovered | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
This illustration shows how black hole jets can be as large as the scale of…
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Ask Ethan: Could a “copy” of me exist in the Multiverse? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Sep, 2024
The Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics holds that there are an infinite number of…