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This is what happens when Two Black Holes Collide.

This is the animation of the final stages of a merger between two black holes. What is particularly interesting about this animation is that it highlights a phenomenon known as Gravitational Lensing.

What is Gravitational Lensing?

Mass bends Light. What? 

Yeah, mass can bend Light. The gravitational field of a really massive object is super strong. And this causes light rays passing close to that object to be bent and refocused somewhere else.

The more massive the object, the stronger its gravitational field and hence the greater the bending of light rays - just like using denser materials to make optical lenses results in a greater amount of refraction.

Here’s an animation showing a black hole going past a background galaxy.

This effect is one of the predictions of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity 

PC: cfhtlens, Urbane Legend

This analysis book was published in 1970. At some point in its life before I purchased it last summer (a life which spanned 18 years before I was even born, by the way), it was owned by someone who read every page, and wrote enthusiastic comments in the margins next to particularly thrilling conclusions to proofs. I love this subject, and I share every sentiment with this unknown stranger. I too love the drama of confusion and the triumph of understanding, and I love sharing that experience with this person with whom I have a rare and important commonality. Wherever you are book-commenting analysis enthusiast, I think the world of you. I hope you have a happy life full of abstract mathematics.

a concept: i am finally enough

A note to incoming STEM major freshmen and high schoolers who are thinking of pursuing science:

you WILL take more than one STEM class. every single semester. so will every single other STEM major. no one will feel bad if you think you have a hard course load because you’re in more than one STEM class. it’s just not happening.

that being said - here is the god’s honest truth, coming from someone who’s overloaded in courses 4 out of 5 semesters (because they wouldn’t let me do so my first):

1) everything you think you can’t do, you can, and then some

2) everything you think is the hardest thing you’ve experienced, you will overcome, and then face even harder challenges, which you will also overcome

3) if you love what you’re doing - really, truly, love what you’re doing - you’ll be ecstatic that your entire schedule consists of just that. taking only STEM classes is awesome when that’s what you want to devote the rest of your life to

basically what I’m getting at with this is -

If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right.

debate debate debate debate debate feeeeeevvvvveeeerrrrrrr

person: it’s too early for halloween stuff it’s over a month away

me: 

Goals:

1. Do science. 2. Advance the human race. 3. Make other people happy.

We have the privilege to be educated. Don’t waste that.

(via dontstop-study)

@girls don’t let a man interrupt your education

who did this

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Cats for the 53 stations of the Tokaido, 1847 - 1850. Japan. Via Rijksmuseum

"To paraphrase Walt Whitman: 'You are vast. You contain multitudes. Now let them live.'"

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (via unsociabledoll)