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What's The Brightest Thing In the Universe?

Vsauce · 3 min read

The brightest sustained objects in the universe aren’t stars or even the brief flash of a gamma-ray burst—they’re quasars, powered by black holes...

Absolute MagnitudeQuasarsBlack Holes

What if a star explodes near Earth?

Veritasium · 3 min read

A nearby supernova is powerful enough to outshine entire galaxies, but the real danger to Earth isn’t just the flash—it’s the cascade of radiation...

Supernova MechanismNeutrino PhysicsChandrasekhar Limit

Extinction by Gamma-Ray Burst

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Gamma-ray bursts pose a credible, hard-to-prevent extinction threat because their long-term atmospheric chemistry can strip Earth’s ozone and trigger...

Gamma-Ray BurstsMass ExtinctionsAtmospheric Chemistry

How Black Holes Spin Space Time

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Rotating black holes don’t just spin—they drag spacetime itself into a whirlpool, creating a special region outside the event horizon where energy...

Kerr MetricFrame DraggingErgosphere

The Universe Zapped Our Neighbors

Second Thought · 2 min read

The “Fermi paradox” boils down to a brutal mismatch: the universe seems primed for intelligent life, yet there’s no sign of it. With billions of...

Fermi ParadoxGamma-Ray BurstsAstrobiology

Does the Planck Length Break E=MC^2?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Planck-scale physics might still respect relativity—but only if the Planck length (or equivalently the Planck energy) stays invariant for observers...

Planck LengthDoubly Special RelativityModified Dispersion Relation

Neutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

A fast-moving rumor tied to a specific gamma-ray burst and a nearby galaxy claims LIGO has detected gravitational waves from a neutron star–neutron...

LIGO DetectionsNeutron Star MergersGamma-Ray Bursts