James Berrow

@spacejames.bsky.social

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C++/OpenCL/Binary Black Hole collisions. Space and astrophysics, with a side dish of cats https://20k.github.io

Two particles orbiting each other, followed by flying off in a clearly incorrect direction abruptly at the end
Its a cat. She's called wesley. She's a very good cat, despite her love of sneezing in my face, and her ability to become airborne immediately in any environment just by walking in the room. Every time I open an amazon parcel, I find bits of her fur in it. I worry that one day I'll wake up, and I'll simply have become a pile of her fur which has sprung to life and begun to go about my daily tasks
Collapsing cluster of 10 million stars
Its a very long stretched picture of a cat, with a second cat randomly slapped on in the middle because it was the correct positioning for an old article. There are stars, and a rainbow, and everything is purple. The subtext is that the author is insane
Mass vs radius curve for a neutron star, showing that for each possible mass, there are multiple possible radiuses
black hole with redshifted accretion disk