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The Stellar Graveyard

The Stellar Graveyard

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 Felix Mercer reveals how massive stars become cosmic graveyards, birthing black holes through catastrophic death. Explore the dramatic life cycles of giant stars and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's groundbreaking work on stellar remnants that sparked fierce controversy at the 1935 Royal Astronomical Society meeting. Felix transforms complex nuclear physics into accessible storytelling, explaining how we learned to distinguish between white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. Discover why Chandrasekhar's revolutionary ideas faced decades of scientific resistance and how stellar collapse creates the universe's most extreme objects. This episode unveils the violent cosmic processes that forge black holes from dying stars' final moments.
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