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Professor, physicist. Black holes, quantum gravity, cosmology. Tennessean. Rocky Top. Tar Heel. RTs are spooky action at a distance. Views mine, not employer's.
jacobi.luc.edu

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Happy 29th birthday, Hubble! The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990. Please reply with your favorite Hubble images.
Image: The Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038 and NGC 4039)
Link: https://t.co/yNfnG5BbXj

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~Black holes I have known~

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Here’s something similar, from . The image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of M87, a simulation, and the simulation adjusted to reflect the resolution of the EHT — their guess for what we’d see!
https://t.co/GoKPtAci1c
Image: Akiyama et al and ApJL

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Given the extreme weather headed towards Chicago I thought it might be fun to review the goofy, extremophile, very hypothetical aliens from the National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe (a foundational text for nerds of a certain age).

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell made the first observation of a pulsar in 1967. She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but it was soon identified as a rotating, magnetized neutron star.

Photo: National Media Museum

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The physicist Lise Meitner was born in 1878. She discovered fission in uranium and was the first person to understand both its mechanics and implications.
Image: Atomic Heritage Foundation (photographer unknown)

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This Blade Runner-esque photo of Toronto is by Lucan Coutts. It's getting a lot of shares without acknowledging him as the photographer. Here's his instagram:
https://t.co/TKYHIGEeQf

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Just ordered this great black hole print from . But now I've got my eye on their wormhole poster.
https://t.co/dGB2AFTMd1

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It's almost like something has created an atmosphere where hateful people feel even more emboldened than before.

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