BLACK HOLES. “Their very existence and their formation environment in the early Universe are still under debate, and their supposed rarity makes modelling their formation difficult.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0873-4 View in LinkedIn
BLACK HOLE FORMATION. “Models have shown that rapid collapse of pre-galactic gas (with a mass infall rate above some critical value) in metal-free haloes is a requirement for the formation of a protostellar core that will then form a supermassive star.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0873-4 View in LinkedIn
MODEL OF BLACK HOLES. “Here we report a radiation hydrodynamics simulation of early galaxy formation that produces metal-free haloes massive enough and with sufficiently high mass infall rates to form supermassive stars.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0873-4 View in LinkedIn
EARLY BLACK HOLES. “We find that pre-galactic haloes and their associated gas clouds that are exposed to a Lyman–Werner intensity roughly three times the intensity of the background radiation and that undergo at least one period of rapid mass growth early in their evolution are ideal environments for the formation of supermassive stars.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0873-4 View in LinkedIn
DRIVER OF BLACK HOLE FORMATION. “Our results strongly indicate that the dynamics of structure formation, rather than a critical Lyman–Werner flux, is the main driver of the formation of massive black holes in the early Universe.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0873-4 View in LinkedIn
UNACCEPTABLE. “We cannot make artificial life because we cannot agree on what life is. We cannot find life on Mars because we cannot agree what life represents. This is intolerable for any science. You can take a science in which there are two or three definitions for one thing. But a science in which the most important object has no definition? That’s absolutely unacceptable.” https://lnkd.in/gNSZgDT View in LinkedIn
FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on a lovely article by the extraordinary Professor E.O. Wilson, titled “One Giant Leap: How Insects Achieved Altruism and Colonial Life.” This man put the ant on coffee tables all over the world, and changed entomology from a sleepy descriptive backwater largely confined to museums and academics to a dynamic study of social group structures that profoundly impacted many non scholars. This is the David Attenborough of insects. https://lnkd.in/drgWvGT View in LinkedIn
EO WILSON BIO. “Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929), usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, naturalist, and writer. Wilson is considered the most important and outstanding living biologist in the world and on numerous occasions he has been nicknamed "The New Darwin", "Darwin's natural heir" or "The Darwin of the 21st century". His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert.” https://lnkd.in/d7GFY6n View in LinkedIn
EO WILSON BIO. “Wilson is the Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a lecturer at Duke University, and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. The Royal Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize, awarded Dr. Wilson the Crafoord Prize, an award designed to cover areas not covered by Nobel Prizes (biology, oceanography, mathematics, astronomy etc.). He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (for On Human Nature in 1979, and The Ants in 1991) and a New York Times bestselling author for The Social Conquest of Earth, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Meaning of Human Existence.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson View in…
