Essay of the Week
From the point of no return to Hawking radiation — a plain-language guide to one of the universe's most extreme objects, and the paradox that still puzzles physicists.
"The event horizon is not a wall you would feel or see — it is a boundary in spacetime past which the future only leads inward."— Aphelion, The Black Hole Series
Space Telescopes
Early galaxies that challenge formation models, the first direct CO₂ detection on another world, and star nurseries hidden inside cosmic dust clouds.
Exoplanets
Transit photometry, radial velocity, direct imaging, microlensing, astrometry — five methods explained from first principles, and why each finds different kinds of worlds.
Astronomy
What happens to information that falls into a black hole? The debate at the intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity that still has no agreed resolution.
