As someone who works with DNA on a regular basis: that is some cool a$$ed sh*t!

Very cool. Thanks, Alex!

Totally amazing. We really are living in a time where so much is beginning to be understood!

hot diggity!
thanks for the post!

Neat!

They've doubled up? Must be so they can rock us harder!

Totally amazing. We really are living in a time where so much is beginning to be understood!

But we also learn how much we still don't know. For example the plasma experiments they did at Sandia recently, they reached two billion Kelvin, and they don't know why. It keeps it all interesting, doesn't it?

two billion Kelvin

That practically makes me dizzy, my mind reels so hard. Wow.

I read an article yesterday about how black holes might not be collapsed stars with infinite density at all, but giant blobs of dark matter. Given what we know about dark matter and what we know about black holes, this not only makes sense but also clears up some problems with the black-hole theory in the first place. Wish I'd saved the link.

All of this to say that this is the second-coolest bit of astronomy news I've seen this week.

Gaia yo.