#dennis overbye

[jeffalessandrelli]

Astronomers discovered that there are billions of possibly habitable planets in the galaxy. At the same time, they have had to accept that 95 percent of the cosmos consists of invisible “dark matter” that binds stars in galaxies and a “dark energy” that pushes those same galaxies apart ever faster. Nobody knows what this dark stuff is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/science/space/universe-overbye-retirement.html

[leapingmonkeys]

A Solstice of the Soul

[ubu507]

Stranded in the present, we don't know for certain where we came from or where we're going; and future and past recede into myth and hope. Yet we press forward trying to peer past our horizons in time and space. -- Dennis Overbye

[ubu507]

It was a pure unmodulated tone, meaning it appeared to carry no message except the fact of its own existence.

-- Dennis Overbye

[malaisequotes]

“Astronomers say they have heard the sound of a black hole singing. And what it is singing, and perhaps has been singing for more than two billion years, they say, is B flat...”

Music of the Heavens Turns Out to Sound a Lot Like a B Flat by Dennis Overbye

[leapingmonkeys]

Don’t Expect a ‘Theory of Everything’ to Explain It All

[diivdeep]

Christopher Nolan and the Contradictions of J. Robert Oppenheimer

The biopic director argues that the physicist who oversaw creation of the atomic bomb was both the most important person who ever lived and

[jeffalessandrelli]

Is There a Black Hole in Our Backyard?

Astrophysicists have recently begun hatching plans to find out just how weird Planet Nine might be.