Black Hole Sun: Our first look (and interaction) with a black hole

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would’ve heard all the buzz that we’ve captured for the first time ever a picture of an actual black hole! To be specific, it’s not the black hole per se, but rather it is the event horizon -the circumference of the black hole. It took a lot […]

“Blue Jelly?!”: The Jellyfish Galaxy

Believe it or not, there are some really amazing structures sprinkled throughout the cosmos. I’m not talking about structures, like alien ships or monuments or what have you, but naturally occurring phenomenon. These take the shapes of nebulae, which are just collections of space dust and gas molded into a system of sorts. There are […]

An overlay of the universe

This is a picture I took I can’t remember how many years ago now. It was dusk, having a cookout at my moms house, and I was laying on the grass and this was what I was observing. The colors and the light compliment each other so well I had to snap a pic. But […]

Scooby Doo and the case of the Norwegian Spiral

With the word out that we may be getting our very first image EVER of a real black hole, it makes sense that we segway to a sensational mystery. Occurring 10 years ago over Europe, it tantalized the local community and the alien community alike. Ruh Roh Known as The Norwegian Spiral, it was a […]

Whatever you say: The “Ancient Alien” Theory

We’re going to take a different route here and talk about something that’s garnered quite a bit of attention. Not the good, curious kind of attention. It’s that kind of attention where someone seems intrigued, then once the stance is explained, you get that sort of side glance eye glare, like that person doesn’t know […]

Nice to Meet you: The idea of duel realities

there’s the entertaining idea of the multiverse, then there’s this… I’ve been reading a lot about the concepts of bio-quantum mechanics (is that a thing? it is now). I touched on it slightly in a previous post, presenting the question of what happens to environments when we leave them (like going to the grocery store). […]

The Edge of the Sidewalk: How technology is helping us envision what black holes look like

We’re getting ever closer to revealing a deep cosmic mystery I’ve hinted at black holes in one of my earlier posts. These are superstructures of immense gravitational value, but they also can’t be seen (sound familiar?). We’re not sure what they do. Do they suck you up and spaghettify you? Do you get hurled into […]

Where do we go from here? Photon particles and beyond

After reading Move over dark matter, here comes the photon mass, I originally thought “great, as if it couldn’t get any more complicated…” But that is just the dismissive part of me talking. We should want space to get more complicated, because it only gets more exciting! This is yet another new theory about the […]

How big we Talkin’?: the expansion of Cosmic Power

Ever wonder what happens beyond what you can see? The universe is a big, scary thing. Between dark matter and dark energy, and how our galaxy has already lived and died, it contains a whole lot we don’t understand. That puts into perspective the tip of the iceberg that is our universe. That’s what I […]

“See You in Another Life”: The Life, Death and Rebirth of our Galaxy

The Gases of our Milky Way tell a story… They say history repeats itself, and its only natural that the complexities of space provide insight into this idiom. Researchers in Japan have discovered that through a process called “cold flow accretion”, gases rich in “alpha” elements (oxygen, magnesium, silicon) flowed through our primordial galaxy in […]