i've been asking about the first second for more than a decade, suspecting time would be slower (although unobservable within that timeframe), and thus affect if not our universe itself, then at least how we observe it.

I've, of course, pestered physicists with the question "how long was the very first second?"
...and now there seems to an answer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66V4RSmDqYM

I guess in the next decade they'll find out the age of our universe isn't homogenous... which *of course* it isn't.

#TheFirstSecondOfOurUniverse #Astrophysics

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🪐 Researchers @unitorvergata are rewriting the book on gamma-ray bursts as their research led to evidence of a previously unobserved hybrid #neutronstar merger event.

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🪐 Unravelling the birth, growth and power of #blackholes.

@chrissreynolds1 & Michela Mapelli are investigating, funded by the ERC.

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🪐A newly discovered exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star nearly 100 light years away from Earth could be a water world, according to research from @konkolyobs and @CNRS

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Curious about cosmos and how stars & galaxies form and then die? 🪐

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fun fact! if you make a series of concentric ellipses that rotate at a constant rate about the midpoint of the foci, you can easily fake a spiral galaxy type structure that runs in linear time (a typical n-body solver runs in O(n^2) or at best O(n log n) time)
The full equation for such an ellipse is as follows:
r = (b²h cosθ cos(φ-θ) + b²k cos(φ-θ) sinθ - ha² sinθ sin(φ-θ) + a²k cosθ sin(φ-θ) ± sqrt( -2b²h²a² cosθ cos(φ-θ) sinθ sin(φ-θ) + 2b²ha²k (cosθ)² cos(φ-θ) sin(φ-θ) - 2b²ha²k cos(φ-θ) (sinθ)² sin(φ-θ) + 2b²a²k² cosθ cos(φ-θ) sinθ sin(φ-θ) - b²h²a² (cos(φ-θ))² (sinθ)² + 2b²ha²k cosθ (cos(φ-θ))² sinθ - b²a²k² (cosθ)² (cos(φ-θ))² - b²h²a² (cosθ)² (sin(φ-θ))² - 2b²ha²k cosθ sinθ (sin(φ-θ))² - b²a²k² (sinθ)² (sin(φ-θ))² + b⁴a² (cos(φ-θ))² + b²a⁴ (sin(φ-θ))²) ) / b²(cos(φ-θ))² + a²(sin(φ-θ))²
don't ask me how to translate that into code, i'm not sure how i did it myself. you are not limited to 2 armed galaxies tho, and with the right settings can create arbitrarily complex fakes. this does not simulate gravitational forces, and is just a cheapo cheat on keplerian laws of orbits.
#math #gamedev #generativeart #coding #ellipse #geometry #indiedev #indiegamedev #astronomy #physics #astrophysics #cosmology

Discoveries in “the smallest, the largest & the most complex fields” and scientific curiosity were celebrated at the #KavliPrize ceremony!
EU funded 4 of the laureates via ERC🏅
ERC President @mLeptin was there to congratulate them & interact with the Norwegian science community.
RT @KavliPrize: Congratulations to 2022 #KavliPrize Laureates in #Astrophysics Conny Aerts, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, and Roger Ulrich! They just rec…

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🎆Congratulations to former #MSCA supervisor & #kuleuven astronomer Conny Aerts for the prestigious #KavliPrize in Astrophysics!✨

💡Over the past 25 years, the #MSCA have supported 145,000 researchers worldwide – amongst them many trailblazers thinking ahead of their times 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
RT @KavliPrize: Congratulations to 2022 #KavliPrize Laureates in #Astrophysics Conny Aerts, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, and Roger Ulrich! They just rece…

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At the #KavliPrize ceremony, the 2020 winners also receive their prizes! 2 are ERC grantees:

• Andrew Fabian @Cambridge_Uni, #astrophysics - more here👉 https://bit.ly/3cNotbd

• Maximilian Haider, CEOS, #Nanoscience

Congratulation to all 2020 & 2022 @KavliPrize winners!🏅

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This afternoon, Conny Aerts @KU_Leuven and Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard @AarhusUni will each receive a #KavliPrize at a ceremony in Oslo.

Pioneers in #astrophysics, they have contributed to our understanding of stellar evolution.

More on their work 👉 https://bit.ly/3Be0ueD

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RT @ERC_Research: 💫 ERC funded researchers @KU_Leuven and @HITStudies joined forces & discovered a dormant #blackhole 9x the mass of our ☀️ in a neighbouring galaxy - Large Magellanic Cloud.
Discover more:
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#astrophysics #cosmology #galaxyevolution #supernova

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💫 ERC funded researchers @KU_Leuven and @HITStudies joined forces & discovered a dormant #blackhole 9x the mass of our ☀️ in a neighbouring galaxy - Large Magellanic Cloud.
Discover more:
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#astrophysics #cosmology #galaxyevolution #supernova

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Tillykke! 🥳
RT @ERC_Research: 🏆 Congratulations to the newly announced winners of the 2022 @KavliPrize for #Astrophysics!

Roger Ulrich @UCLA's Division of Astronomy, plus ERC grantees Conny Aerts @KU_Leuven & Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard @AarhusUni

News👉 https://erc.europa.eu/news/kavli-award-2022-goes-to-two-ERC-grantees

📷© Nils Lund/#KavliPrize

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🏆 Congratulations to the newly announced winners of the 2022 @KavliPrize for #Astrophysics!

Roger Ulrich @UCLA's Division of Astronomy, plus ERC grantees Conny Aerts @KU_Leuven & Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard @AarhusUni

News👉 http://bit.ly/ERCKavli22

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RT @ERC_Research: 🏆 Congratulations to the newly announced winners of the 2022 @KavliPrize for #Astrophysics!

Roger Ulrich @UCLA's Division of Astronomy, plus ERC grantees Conny Aerts @KU_Leuven & Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard @AarhusUni

News👉 https://erc.europa.eu/news/kavli-award-2022-goes-to-two-ERC-grantees

📷© Nils Lund/#KavliPrize

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🪐 Do you know what #asteroseismology is about?

Find out the answer & more about stellar oscillations through the work of ERC grantee Conny Aerts @IvS_KULeuven - one of the 2022 #KavliPrize laureates 🏆 for #astrophysics.

👉 http://bit.ly/3NQ1vxd

@CORDIS_EU @KavliPrize

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🏆 Congratulations to the newly announced winners of the 2022 @KavliPrize for #Astrophysics!

Roger Ulrich @UCLA's Division of Astronomy, plus ERC grantees Conny Aerts @KU_Leuven & Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard @AarhusUni

News👉 http://bit.ly/ERCKavli22

📷© Nils Lund/#KavliPrize

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🌌 The missing links of black hole astronomy? Watch this video to find out more about #blackholes!
https://bit.ly/39JO5DZ

And if you want to explore it further, you can also read this article:
👉 http://bit.ly/3w8k9sU
#astronomy #astrophysics
@NWONieuws @NWO_Science

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RT @ahead2020: 📽️ Watch all the latest videos produced by #AHEAD2020 related to high-energy #Astrophysics!

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There are available EN, ES, IT and GR subtitles!

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