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 […]

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 […]