Tag Archives: black holes
Some facts are bigger than numbers – a story
Some facts are just boring, like 1 + 1 = 2. You already knew them before they were presented as such, and now that you do, it’s hard to know what to do with them. Some facts are clearly important, … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm, Science
Tagged black holes, interstellar medium, large numbers, monstrous moonshine, observable universe
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The Government Project
Considering how much the Government of India has missed anticipating – the rise of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, the crippling medical oxygen shortage, the circulation of new variants of concern – I have been wondering about why we … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged black holes, City of a Thousand Planets, COVID-19 in India, COVID-19 pandemic, history, India oxygen shortage, medical oxygen, spacetime continuum
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The weekly linklist – July 25, 2020
I’ve decided to publish this linklist via Substack. Next weekend onwards, it will only be available on https://linklist.substack.com. And this is why the list exists and what kind of articles you can find in it. Want to buy a parrot? … Continue reading
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Tagged augury, black holes, cyptomining, electromagnetic pulses, entropy, F-commerce, Facebook, Hope Mars mission, India water crisis, neutrinos, North Kosovo, nuclear explosion, reading, social network, Standard Model of particle physics, UAE
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All the science in ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’
I watched The Cloverfield Paradox last night, the horror film that Paramount pictures had dumped with Netflix and which was then released by Netflix on February 4. It’s a dumb production: unlike H.R. Giger’s existential, visceral horrors that I so … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged black holes, compactification, high dimensions, Interstellar, Kaluza-Klein theory, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerators, Quantum mechanics, special theory of relativity, Spectral, string theory, The Cloverfield Paradox, wave function, wavefunction
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The journey of a crow and the story of a black hole
The Washington Post has a review, and introduction therewith, of a curious new book called Ka, authored by John Crowley (acclaimed author of Great Work of Time). It is narrated from the POV of a crow named Dar Oakley, who … Continue reading
Posted in Life notes, Science
Tagged Alexei Starobinsky, black hole information paradox, black holes, Dar Oakley, Hawking radiation, John Crowley, Ka, no hair conjecture, Stephen Hawking, Yakov Zel'dovich
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Neutron stars
When the hype for the announcement of the previous GW detection was ramping up, I had a feeling LIGO was about to announce the detection of a neutron-star collision. It wasn’t to be – but in my excitement, I’d written … Continue reading
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Tagged black holes, density, electromagnetic energy, gravitational waves, LIGO, neutron stars, pulsars, Virgo detector
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Ironing out an X-ray wrinkle
A version of this post, as written by me, originally appeared in The Copernican science blog on March 1, 2013. — One of the techniques to look for and measure the properties of a black hole is to spot X-rays … Continue reading
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Tagged black holes, emission spectroscopy, gas obscuration, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, prograde rotation, X-ray
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