An ordered, stable system of particles represents a low-entropy state, whereas a more randomized,…
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Almost every large structure in the Universe displays a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio.…
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Ask Ethan: Why does nature always follow a Bell curve? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
This map shows the median age in every county in the United States. If…
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The true reason why Einstein was history’s greatest physicist | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
A mural of the Einstein field equations, with an illustration of light bending around…
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Ask Ethan: How does Hawking radiation really work? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
In the far future, there will be no more matter around black holes, but…
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What was it like when planet Earth first formed? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
When two large bodies collide, as they very likely did between proto-Earth and a…
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Starts With a Bang podcast #102 — The missing exoplanets | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
That’s what we’re exploring on this episode of the Starts With a Bang podcast,…
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This two-toned image shows an illustration of the protoplanetary disk around the young star…
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Galaxy clusters are graveyards for Milky Way-like galaxies | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
This view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies shows over 1000 galaxies all clustered…
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Ask Ethan: Why is there a grand canyon on Mars? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Feb, 2024
Imaged by the THEMIS camera on the Mars Odyssey mission, this photograph shows Valles…