SCIENCE

At 36 billion solar masses, is the heaviest black hole too massive? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size The more massive a black hole is, the larger its…

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Starts With A Bang podcast #120 — Exoplanet biosignatures | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size In the search for life in the Universe, the ultimate…

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What a nuclear reactor on the Moon really means for NASA’s future | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size Humanity has long dreamed of establishing a robust and continuous…

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Ask Ethan: Why do scientists avoid the possibility of God? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size Perhaps the most famous depiction of the ‘Creation of Adam,’…

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Laniakea, our home supercluster, is already being torn apart | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Zoom image will be displayed This visualization of the Laniakea supercluster, which represents a collection of more than 100,000 estimated…

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5 science facts that come from simply watching the Moon | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Zoom image will be displayed This view shows the full Moon rising over the Marina in San Diego, California in…

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Ask Ethan: Did our Universe really arise from nothing? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Aug, 2025

Zoom image will be displayed The Universe is an amazing place, and the way it came to be today is…

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The Universe is not the same forwards and backwards in time | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025

Zoom image will be displayed By examining this strobe image of a bouncing ball, you cannot tell for certain whether…

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Ask Ethan: Could our whole Universe be a black hole’s interior? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025

Zoom image will be displayed We normally conceive of our Universe as having emerged from a preceding period of cosmic…

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The single most amazing fact about the Universe | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Jul, 2025

Zoom image will be displayed Today, the Universe has evolved into the complex, life-friendly place we know it to be…

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