Starts With A Bang podcast

Here in the Universe, there are a few things that are as close-to-perfect as can be. The Sun, for instance is the roundest object in the Universe, but other stars are rounder, with white dwarfs and neutron stars exhibiting even more perfectly roundness. Meanwhile, in terms of keeping time, we might think of the spinning Earth as a wonderful clock — after all, we base our cale...

When the general public speaks about dark matter, most of the discussion centers on the topic of whether dark matter exists or not: on whether it's real. But in astrophysical circles, we're overwhelmingly confident of dark matter's existence, as we've indirectly detected it through an enormous number of independent lines of evidence. Instead, the conversation normally focuses...