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Kelly Oakes has a master's in science communication and a physics degree, both from Imperial College London. Now she spends her days writing about science.
Follow on Twitter @kahoakes.
Kelly Oakes has a master's in science communication and a physics degree, both from Imperial College London. Now she spends her days writing about science.
Follow on Twitter @kahoakes.
Welcome to Basic Space. For those who read my blog before (all three of you…), this is going to be much the same, only bigger and better. For those of you who don’t have a clue who I am or what I am doing here, allow me to explain.
This blog is my attempt to take research about space and astrophysics and make it interesting and clear for people with any or no science background. I mainly write about recent research, but may throw in a few other things from time to time. See the end of this post for links to some of my previous blog posts for examples of what I do.
As for me, I have just (last Friday, in fact) finished a degree in physics at Imperial College London. In my last year I split my time between what seemed like thousands of lectures and a project in which I was looking for a decay that could tell us more about physics beyond the standard model. For my next move, I’ve decided to say goodbye to physics and pursue a career just outside of science: if all goes to plan, I’ll be going back to Imperial in the autumn to study for a masters in science communication.
You can find me on twitter (@kahoakes), visit my homepage or read articles I’ve written for Imperial’s student newspaper, Felix, if you fancy it.
As promised, a taster of Basic Space:
And a bonus Scientific American Guest Blog post I wrote last year: Habitable and not-so-habitable exoplanets: how the latter can tell us more about our own solar system
That’s it from me for now. Pull up a chair, make yourself at home and have a look around the new network. Normal service will resume shortly.
About the Author: Kelly Oakes has a master's in science communication and a physics degree, both from Imperial College London. Now she spends her days writing about science.
Follow on Twitter @kahoakes.
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Does modern science still believe that a black hole is merely at the center of our galaxy just to keep it spinning? These devils are the beginnings and ends of a galaxy! If the big bang theory is to be believed the beginnings of the universe then it had to start from a super massive black hole. (science law states that matter can neither be created nor destroyed)With that in mind, all the matter in the universe came from somewhere. The current 3-D map of the universe,(not the one containing the 43,000 galaxies),is disfigured due to a multitude of little bangs at different times. This explains colliding galaxies and also galaxies moving in opposite directions.
Link to thisImagine this, A super massive black hole pulls in everything from thousands of light years away until a point of critical mass is reached. Then one big explosion occurs sending matter out from the center radially.If this is how the big bang worked, then why are there colliding galaxies………..? The answer is it would not be possible! Singularly the big bang theory is flawed by the very differences of the age of the universe verses the age of the Milky Way.There had to be little bangs throughout the life of the universe!