Thomas Lewton

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  • May 6, 2021
    Imagine being able to see the surface of an Earth-like planet orbiting another star, or watching a star get shredded by a black hole. Such precise observations are currently...
  • Mar 25, 2021
    Waking up in an alternate reality, Harry Kim, an officer aboard the starship USS Voyager, creates a distortion in the space-time continuum with a beam of polarons. Sounds like...
  • Feb 18, 2021
    When the first black hole collision was detected in 2015, it was a watershed moment in the history of astronomy. With gravitational waves, astronomers were observing the universe in...
  • Jan 22, 2021
    In 1987, a giant star exploded right next to our own Milky Way galaxy. It was the brightest and closest supernova since the invention of the telescope some four centuries earlier,...