Category Archives: Astronomy

Pair of huge plasma jets spotted blasting out of gigantic black hole

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Sung Lee

The above title is the verbatim from a Guardian news article that a colleague in chemistry shared. I don’t usually read the Guardian and it is not a reliable source of science news. The article is not well-written and it … Continue reading →

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Three-Body, The Wandering Earth, and Is Starship Earth Possible?

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Sung Lee

There is a TV series called 3 Body Problem on Netflix. It is based on the first novel of the trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s past (the original Chinese title is 地球往事 whose literal translation is Earth’s past) by a Chinese … Continue reading →

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The First Image of a Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Milky Way Galaxy

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Sung Lee

The first image of a supermassive black hole was obtained back in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope (ETH) Collaboration. The supermassive black hole, called M87*, is located at the center of  a distant galaxy Messier 87. It is about … Continue reading →

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Are We Alone in the Universe After All?

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Sung Lee

In the movie Contact (which is based on the novel with the same title by Carl Sagan), Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster) was speaking to a group of children: “I’ll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The … Continue reading →

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