Recipe: Nuclear Pasta, Chef: Neutron Star

The universe has a penchant for cooking up all sorts of weird things. If it weren’t enough with black holes, supermassive stars, etc. astrophysics also postulates the existence of nuclear pasta, an exotic type of matter, within the interiors of neutron stars. To understand neutron stars, we need to know how stars behave. The bigger […]

Hide & Seek – Light From Behind a Black Hole Edition

Black holes have captivated our imagination ever since they were first hypothesized by English astronomer and clergyman John Michell, all the way back in 1784. Michell proposed the idea of a celestial body so massive that even light could not escape it, referring to them as dark stars. Unfortunately, little was made of Michell’s hypothesis. […]