Astrophysics And Aesthetics

Chinese scientist combines extraterrestrial insights with a deep love of beauty. Yu Fei reports for China Features at Xinhua News Agency.

Astrophysicist Zhang Shuangnan likes traditional Chinese deep-fried dough sticks and Western coffee for breakfast before he gets down to work, studying why black holes get "angry."

Sometimes he finds time to ponder why a person is attractive, or to write poems about gravitational waves or quantum entanglement.