Black Holes Jam on Bass to Accompany Star Creation
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Carl Sagan once said that to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe. He was right. And in inventing the universe you will need to build all the objects and structures found in it.
These are the planets, stars, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, gas, dust, galaxies, galaxy clusters and superclusters. Eventually, when this cosmic mix has cooked long enough, the molecular arrangements will emerge to produce that pie. But how does the universe build all this stuff? This is one of the biggest unsolved puzzles in science.