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Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes

The Joy of x

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The Universe Just Happened to Be the Way It Was

It's incredibly lucky that black holes turned out to be much heavier than pated and much more populous. It's also an incredibly lucky coincidence that the moon completely occults the sun in a total eclipse. The entire earth, made up of telescopes, is just on the cusp by a handful of pixtles of the right size to take a picture of either m 87 or sj star. And so all these lucky accidents are peppered throughout history and throughout science.

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