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Why is the Solar System Flat?

minutephysics · 2 min read

The Solar System’s flat, disk-like layout isn’t a special cosmic quirk so much as a predictable outcome of gravity plus collisions in a...

Nebula RotationAngular MomentumCollision Dissipation

Spinning Black Holes

Veritasium · 3 min read

A tidal disruption flare in 2014 turned a previously quiet supermassive black hole into a measurable X-ray clock—revealing evidence about the black...

Tidal Disruption EventsBlack Hole SpinISCO

Why Quasars are so Awesome | Space Time

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Quasars are the universe’s most luminous signposts of supermassive black holes feeding—brief, intense bursts that can reshape entire galaxies and...

QuasarsSupermassive Black HolesAccretion Disks

The NEW PHYSICS of Black Hole Star Capture | Extreme Tidal Disruption Events

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) turn a star into a brief, galaxy-bright flare—and new relativistic simulations are now predicting an even rarer, more...

Tidal Disruption EventsGeneral RelativityRelativistic Hydrodynamics