The stars stood no chance against the more-massive black holes.
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Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.
Great genius is not born of lightning bolt-like moments of inspiration. In reality, perseverance plays the biggest role.
The wise, the old, and the experienced matter to a full and happy life.
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet’s history, humans were nowhere to be found.
If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?”
Finding it at all was a happy accident. Examining it further may help unlock the secrets hiding within the earliest galaxies of all.
Figuring out the answer involved a prism, a pail of water, and a 50 year effort by the most famous father-son astronomer duo ever.