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Gigantic Galaxy Clusters Found Just Before They're Awash in Star Formation
Astronomers have found examples of giant galaxy clusters dozens of times larger than the Milky Way with all the raw…
Hawking Made a Prediction About Black Holes, and Physicists Just Confirmed it
Astronomers have found the first evidence that black holes follow the laws of thermodynamics.
Something other than just gravity is contributing to the shape of dark matter halos
Galactic dark matter is in a state of maximum entropy, which means it must interact with itself.
New Theory of Gravity Does Away With Need for Dark Matter
Dark matter? Who needs it?! Gravity may be something else altogether.
Astronomy Cast Ep. 391: Entropy
Have you ever been doing thermodynamics in a closed system and noticed that there’s a finite number of ways that…
Will the Universe Run Out Of Energy?
It seems like the good times will go on forever, so feel free to keep on wasting energy. But entropy…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Holographic Dark Information Energy
[/caption] Holographic Dark Information Energy gets my vote for the best mix of arcane theoretical concepts expressed in the shortest…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Black Hole Entropy
[/caption] An easy way to think about the entropy of black holes is to consider that entropy represents the loss…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Is Time Real?
Time is an illusion caused by the passage of history (Douglas Adams 1952-2001). The way that we deal with time…
What is Entropy?
Perhaps there's no better way to understand entropy than to grasp the second law of thermodynamics, and vice versa. This…