Category: Cosmology

September 17, 2021 / Cosmology

We explore dwarf galaxies with no star formation and dwarf planets with a clue to a lurking object in the outer solar system. But first Top Quark is stumped by a non-stumper stumper, and our…

August 11, 2021 / Astrophysics

It’s a tale of pairs and “self-coupling”, which causes Top quark endless mirth, in this episode, with Higgs boson pairs, self-annihilating photon pairs producing antimatter (in an electron/positron pair), and a pair of oddly red…

July 14, 2021 / Black Holes
June 23, 2021 / Cosmology

Just when the mysterious dimming of nearby giant star Betelgeuse is explained, a more distant giant star was almost completely blocked out. We discuss the very different explanations for these two stellar events, and we…

June 16, 2021 / Astrophysics

These days it goes without saying that the universe is the same in every direction, at least on large scales. Or is it? We take a look at a new result from the Sloane Digital…

April 21, 2021 / Astrophysics

Not all dark matter is “dark matter” dark matter. Some is simply dark, well, matter. An Australian radio telescope has found a long filament of cold plasma from the scintillations it produces in the radio…