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UMBERTO ECO’S THE INFINITY OF LISTS. “Profuse, plethoric, prolix, plentiful, playful, populous, picaresque, picturesque; copious, cornucopian, congested, clotted; incontinent, infested, infectious; omnivorous, orgiastic, odd; abundant, redundant; multifarious, multitudinous; glutted, gargantuan, inclusive, elusive, and...exhaustive." https://lnkd.in/gXa_rzg View in LinkedIn

UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS. “Future work is needed to understand how the absence of the hydrogen envelope would change the tidal effect at smaller pericentre distances.” https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn

APPROACHING DEATH. “It is likely that the WD will only experience one tidal nova before disruption. However, as the WD continues to inspiral, the tidal heating rate will increase steeply as a function of decreasing η. This strong dependence presents the possibility of multiple novae before disruption, which may produce a distinctive observational signature.” (WD = white dwarf). https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn

HYDROGEN ENVELOPE. “Our work poses the question of what happens to a WD in an eccentric orbit around a BH that has already lost its hydrogen envelope in a runaway fusion event. The absence of a hydrogen envelope will change the behaviour of gravity waves near the surface of the WD and may reduce tidal dissipation.” (WD = white dwarf; BH = black hole). https://lnkd.in/djnsGi4 View in LinkedIn

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1888 NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY PREFACE. “The preparation of this volume has taken a much longer time than any of the promoters of the work anticipated. The time has been consumed chiefly in two directions: first with the larger articles, as those on At, By, But, Be, Bear, Break, the construction of which has occupied many days, sometimes even weeks.” https://lnkd.in/dwUqBGd View in LinkedIn

THE OBJECTS OF DESIRE. “The progenitors of these extreme quasars, and the mechanism behind their immense rapid growth remain a topic of open active research and a stringent theoretical hurdle to overcome.” https://lnkd.in/dhG6-RE View in LinkedIn

ENORMOUS SIZES. “While quasars have been observed at all redshifts up to z ~ 7.5, inferences of SMBH masses from luminous high redshift quasars (z > 6) can reach up to ~10(9)M⊙.” (SMBH = supermassive black hole). https://lnkd.in/dhG6-RE View in LinkedIn

LEGENDARY HERITAGE. “Quasars or quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) are highly luminous objects that are a class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) powered by the accretion of matter from a disk onto the central supermassive black hole (SMBH).” https://lnkd.in/dhG6-RE View in LinkedIn