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Category Archives: Astrophysics

Black Holes: #7 In the Middle

December 4, 2019by Mekhi Dhesi Leave a comment

A short post discussing the possible existence of intermediate mass black holes and why we want to find them.

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Astrophysics, Physics, Science, Space

Black Holes: #6 Ancient Relics

November 27, 2019by Mekhi Dhesi 3 Comments

A post exploring the possible consequences of Primordial Black Holes, ancient types of Black Holes born not out of the collapse of stars, but out of the Big Bang itself.

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Astrophysics, Physics, Science

Inspirational Systems

March 12, 2019by Mekhi Dhesi 2 Comments

A post explaining the research area of my new PhD – gravitational wave emission from binary sources, their detection and the key insights they provide into the nature of gravity.

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Astrophysics, Mathematics, Physics, Science

Black Holes: #5 Fuzzballs

February 5, 2019by Mekhi Dhesi 4 Comments

A post explaining the fuzzball, believed by string theorists to be the true quantum description of a black hole. The theory seeks to resolve the famous information paradox and eliminate the existence of troublesome singularities at the centre of black holes.

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Astrophysics, Mathematics, Physics, Science

Black Holes: #4 Perturbing

January 23, 2019by Mekhi Dhesi 5 Comments

A continuation in the series on Black Holes, examining the Black Hole Stability Conjecture. Asking whether, when black holes are disturbed they return to their stable state after spewing out gravitational waves.

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Astrophysics, Mathematics, Physics, Science

A System of Plenty

June 17, 2018by Mekhi Dhesi 9 Comments

Today we bring together black holes and exoplanets to fantasise over the ultimate solar system with a dark twist.

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Astrophysics, Physics, Science, Space

The Long Voyage

September 15, 2017by Mekhi Dhesi 9 Comments

To mark their 40th anniversary, we tell the story of the Voyager missions. Twin spacecrafts launched in 1977 that have travelled further than any human object, out into the depths of interstellar space and are still reaching for the stars.

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Astrophysics, Science, Space

Looking to the Horizon

April 12, 2017by Mekhi Dhesi 49 Comments

A post about the Event Horizon Telescope and its recent efforts to capture the first ever image of the Black Hole at the center of our galaxy.

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Astrophysics, Science

Story of the stars

March 21, 2017by Mekhi Dhesi 31 Comments

The life of a star is brilliant, furious and explosive. Today we will recount the journeys of the different types of stars, from birth until death.

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Astrophysics, Science

Catching Waves

February 23, 2017by Mekhi Dhesi 17 Comments

In 1915 Gravitational Waves were predicted by Einstein as a product of his theory of general relativity and in 2015, on the theory’s 100th anniversary, their existence was verified. Find out what all the fuss about and how the long awaited detection came about.

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Astrophysics, Physics, Science

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