Tag: X-ray binaries

• Ionizing the Universe with black holes and neutron stars

  About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe cooled off enough for stable atoms to form out of the primordial plasma. However, sometime in the billion years or so after that, something happened to heat the gas up again, returning it to plasma form. Though we know reionization (as it is called) happened, that…

  Matthew R. Francis

  February 5, 2014

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  black holes, cosmology, neutron stars, reionization, X-ray binaries