Moles
From Star Trek to Doctor Who to The Orville, science fiction often incorporates black holes into story lines, in large part because there’s still so much we don’t know. But Alexander Vilenkin isn’t daunted at all by this vast and complex subject. The Leonard and Jane Holmes Bernstein Professor in Evolutionary Science in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts, he has studied theoretical cosmology, including dark energy, cosmic strings, and the multiverse, for decades. If anyone can help unravel some of the mystery around black holes, it’s Black holes are among the most fascinating phenomena of outer space, and we’re learning more about them all the time. Just last week, a group of astronomers published a paper documenting a rare visible collision of black holes, which produced a flash of light that allowed scientists to see the event from Earth. Vilenkin recently gave Tufts Now a crash course to make these cosmic giants a bit more accessible. Here are three facts ab...
