Starts With A Bang — January 1, 2016

Starts With A Bang is now on Forbes!

Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all

A gold cylinder with a yellow handle crafted for quantum computing.

Starts With A Bang podcast #101 – Quantum Computing

Here in the 21st century, quantum computing is quickly going from a dream to a reality. But what’s hype, and what’s actually true?

Image of a JWST deep field, showing a lensed cluster of galaxies containing the early black hole CEERS 1019

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Starts With A Bang podcast #100 – Galaxies in the JWST era

Since JWST first glimpsed the Universe, we’ve entered a new era in understanding the earliest objects in the Universe. What have we learned?

Visualization of the timeline of the universe, from the beginning big bang to the present.

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What was it like at the beginning of the Big Bang?

Some 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe became hot, dense, and filled with high-energy quanta all at once. Here’s what it was like.

Hard Science

New paper argues that the Universe began with two Big Bangs

Bang bang all over the Universe.

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Starts With A Bang podcast #99 – Varying and evolving stars

When we look at our Sun, its properties are incredibly constant, varying by merely ~0.1% over time. But all stars don’t play by those rules.

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The loneliest galaxy in the Universe

From the Milky Way’s perspective, there are hundreds of galaxies visible with even a small telescope. But from this galaxy’s location? Zero. “If the expansion of the space of the […]