Another Fractal

Journey to the Microcosmos- We Recorded Too Much Slow Motion Footage So Here's a Bonus Video

5 Things We Still Don’t Know About Black Holes (And 2 We Do) After LIGO

“1.) How small are the lowest-mass black holes?

LIGO has yet to detect any low-amplitude binaries, providing no information about this population.”

Beginning in 2015, the LIGO detectors began to see robust, bona fide signals of gravitational waves. Of the 11 signals detected to date, 10 of them correspond to black hole-black hole mergers. Gravitational wave astronomy has not only opened up a whole new eye on the Universe, it’s opened up a whole new world as far as our understanding of black holes go. With these 10 mergers under our belt, and an upgraded data run expected later this year, it’s time to take stock of what we don’t yet know, and how we hope to get there. 

 1- Illustration in ‘Radio observations of the pulse profiles and dispersion measures of twelve pulsars’ Harold Craft’s 1970 phD thesis. Suggested by Bernard and used by Peter Saville as the cover design for Joy Division’s  Unknown Pleasures’

Fractal Geometry – The Geometry of Nature

Self-similarity, the property of exhibiting patterns that repeat on different scales, is evident just about everywhere you look. Objects with this property are known as fractals thanks to the work of mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975.

Beryllium 9  (2019)