The vicinity of a black hole displays the splendor of the entire universe. Near the so-called “photon sphere”, light can be trapped by gravity on a circular orbit around the black hole, just as the Earth moves around the Sun. For the four-million solar mass black hole at the center…

David Bohm: Introduction to Bohmian Mechanics — There is no doubt that quantum mechanics is one of the most irrefutably successful theories in the history of our existence. In the eighty years since its introduction, it has helped to explain phenomena ranging from Cooper pairs in superconductors to the detonation of stars. We have paid a price…

JWST’s first color images: explained — The world got its first look at the ingenuity of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on the 11th of July. These first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to unfold the infrared universe. The JWST…