by Ethan Kwan | Sep 19, 2021 | Blog
There are tens of millions of black holes in the Milky Way alone, and trillions more in the rest of the observable universe. All of these black holes have varying sizes, from the tiniest hypothetical black holes to the largest, terrifying ones. So, let’s dive in!...
by Ethan Kwan | Sep 14, 2021 | Blog
Monday: SelfDesign has OFFICIALLY started! I basically did the same thing I did every day, though. I did math (about surface integrals) and science (about thermodynamics). I did the preliminary course about surface integrals, and I started the actual surface...
by Ethan Kwan | Sep 12, 2021 | Blog
Monday: This week is TECHNICALLY the start of SelfDesign, so I started getting ready 😀 I started doing my learner slideshow, which is a presentation about what your goals are this school year, and how you improved in the summer, so I wrote about… coding + math +...
by Ethan Kwan | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog
And it’s a cool slingshot When the giants of space — galaxy clusters — collide, extraordinary things can happen. A new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory examines the consequences of a collision between two galaxy clusters. Galaxy clusters are the...
by Ethan Kwan | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog
The closest brown dwarves to Earth are in the constellation Vela, about 6.5 light-years away, looking like a faint dot in the night sky. Actually, the dot is two brown dwarfs, the binary system called Luhman 16AB. These brown dwarves are about the same size as...
by Ethan Kwan | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog
Brown dwarves aren’t stars, but they aren’t planets, and a new study suggests there might be more of them than previously thought. A new study explains how a particular cosmic object called WISEA J153429.75-104303.3 — Nicknamed “The Accident” — came to be. The...
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