Black holes aren’t black!
If there is one thing everybody knows about black holes it is that they are so dense that even light can’t escape. And yet, as Marcus Chown explains, black holes are some of the most prodigiously luminous objects in space.
So they’re not holes. And...
Published 06/06/24
You tell yourself “It’s OK, it’s OK … ” but it’s really not!
Scarlett Thomas is a tricky novelist to categorise. She has a playful, restless, sleeves-rolled-up approach to writing, in which she seldom ducks the dark turn and the big idea. And you can’t doubt her commitment. She once...
Published 04/19/24