SCIENCE
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JWST fully solves the mystery of “Little Red Dots” | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
These six “little red dot” galaxies are examples of objects that, if their brightness was caused by the stars within…
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Starts With A Bang podcast #113 — Weird stars | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
The featured image shows the star RR Lyrae, as imaged by the digitized sky survey back at the turn of…
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Black hole myth busted: they don’t suck anything in | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
A black hole is famous for absorbing matter and having an event horizon from which nothing can escape,and for cannibalizing…
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How far back in time can we see in space? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
Galaxies identified in the eXtreme Deep Field image can be broken up into nearby, distant, and ultra-distant components, with Hubble…
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Ask Ethan: Can a lumpy Universe explain dark energy? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
By mapping out the three-dimensional positions of galaxies over a large volume of the Universe, scientists within the DESI collaboration…
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Is the universe actually a fractal? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
This image shows a slice of the matter distribution in the Universe as simulated by the GiggleZ complement to the…
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Ask Ethan: Could SETI detect a “twin” of Earth? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
While we often imagine that an alien civilization that’s intelligent and technologically advanced will be far more advanced than we…
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Our Universe has more galaxies than Carl Sagan ever imagined | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jan, 2025
Taking us beyond the limits of any prior observatory, including all of the ground-based telescopes on Earth as well as…
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Ask Ethan: Do gravitons need to exist? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
Quantum gravity attempts to combine Einstein’s general theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Quantum corrections to classical gravity are visualized…
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Gold, frankincense, and myrrh: one gift was made in a neutron star | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Dec, 2024
The Universe itself, through a variety of nuclear processes involving stars and stellar remnants, as well as other means, can…
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