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Space Hurricanes Exist And One Was Just Found Above Earth
Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a discovery of a new phenomenon known as space hurricane. Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146… Video credit, NASA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4FSg…
Cygnus X-1’s Stellar-Mass Black Hole is More Massive than Astronomers Thought | Sci News
A black hole in the Cygnus X-1 binary system is so massive that it challenges current stellar evolution models. Discovered in 1964, Cygnus X-1 is an X-ray binary system located in the constellation Cygnus. The primary star, HD 226868, is … Continue reading
Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?
It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well we’ve just taken that to the next level with a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that may have detected a foundational element of space itself – the … Continue reading
Evidence That Planets Transform From One Type to Another Over Time
Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new study that suggests planet can shrink and change types. Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14671.pdf Press release: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-… Image credit, Wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi…
The Dark Sky Paradox – A Never-Ending Universe
[…] *Creator* Jade Tan-Holmes *Editing and Motion Graphics* Hamish Gilbert and Junior *Music* https://www.epidemicsound.com/ *Sources/Further Reading* Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics – Jim Al-Khalili http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/nicole/teac… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%…
How did the universe begin?
In this video I go through the different theories which physicists have for how the universe began. To learn more about inflation and the inflaton field, this is an excellent starting point: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5424 Here is more about the Ekpyrotic Universe: … Continue reading
Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse
Natalie Wolchover Senior Writer/Editor The Gaia telescope gauges the distances to stars by measuring their parallax, or apparent shift over the course of a year. Closer stars have a larger parallax. We don’t know why the universe appears to … Continue reading
Julian Barbour on “The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time” | Closer To Truth Chats
Physicist Julian Barbour discusses his newest book, “The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time.” In it, Barbour makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time — and shapes the destiny of the universe. … Continue reading
Did All Of Our Water Come From? | Answers With Joe
Water covers 71% of the Earth’s surface. We are a water planet, it makes life possible. But where exactly it came from is still a bit of a mystery. Some new studies have shared some light on this question, and … Continue reading
A cyclical, forgetful Universe – Nobel prizewinner Roger Penrose details an astonishing origin hypothesis | Aeon
Since the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965, the Big Bang theory has been the dominant model of our Universe’s origin. In the ensuing decades, an obvious and yet still deeply unsettled question has emerged at the core … Continue reading
