Here's a funny coincidence: the Schwarzschild radius is the radius defining the event horizon of a black hole. It is also the last name of the astronomer who derived it, Karl Schwarzschild, and it means "Black Shield" in German.

Good morning! This is roughly (depending on your screen resolution, and whether you’re viewing on desktop, mobile, or tablet) the size of a Schwarzschild black hole with the same mass as the Earth. A diameter of about 0.7 inches.

Louise Webster: The woman who co-discovered black holes but whose name has disappeared down a metaphorical black hole. Today, do your bit to make sure she is not forgotten by remembering her name! marcuschown.com/article/forgot… Head of Zeus FBA New Humanist

RHLSTP Book Club with brilliant communicator and physicist Marcus Chown about A Crack in Everything, his fascinating book about Black Holes and the people who discovered them shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episode… Buy the book here uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-crac…

Looking forward to talking about A CRACK IN EVERYTHING at the fabulous Royal Institution on 23 September rigb.org/whats-on/crack… It's such a thrill to talk in the auditorium where Michael Faraday lectured! Come along if you can. FBA Head of Zeus

Did you know? Supermassive black holes give out no light yet are the brightest objects in the universe. amazon.co.uk/Crack-Everythi…… FBA Head of Zeus

I almost spit out my drink. 😂

At the moment in Naples it’s raining so hard it’s blown the manhole covers off the drains.

Rare Images that Capture World War One as it Really Was historydefined.net/images-world-w…

A GB News presenter - no prizes for guessing who - celebrating normalisation of Holocaust denial as evidence their side is winning. The "facts about WW2" mentioned are that Churchill was the "real villain" of the conflict and the Holocaust was essentially a catering accident.

Superyacht and private jet tax could raise £2bn a year. Richest 0.1 per cent in Britain emit 22 times more pollution from transport than low earners, and 12 times more than average. Polluter must pay. Also need wealth taxes, higher VAT on luxury goods. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Bloody hell. This is absolutely disgusting.

Galileo was a giant in the history of science, discovering among other things that a swinging pendulum keeps perfect time and that all bodies, no matter what their mass, fall at the same rate. But a career low-point was when he claimed that Saturn was… … a planet with ears.

Privately educated Kemi Badenoch says she was from a middle class family but became working class while working in McDonalds. Absolutely fucking deluded.

🔴The Jewish Chronicle Crisis Should Mean the End for Sham Press Regulator IPSO As never before, the press industry’s tame complaints body stands exposed as neither. For all our sakes, the Government must call time, argues Brian Cathcart bylinetimes.com/2024/09/18/the…

"A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people" - John Cleese

What a ludicrous story bit.ly/3ZtJdec Apart from the fact that many of those reporting on it are paid more to write about the people who run the country than the ones who actually run it! They should be explaining the political reasons why the UK PM is paid so little!

If these pagers, smartphones or battery devices were innocently carried onto an aircraft anywhere in the world??? No way should any country engage in this form of terrorism regardless! Karma is a sore loser!!!

Labour should pick on proven tax cheats, not pensioners via @https://twitter.com/BylinesEast eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/econo…

Genuine question: Why would the BBC give Johnson airtime to promote his book?