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Priya Natarajan on Black Holes and Mapping the Universe

The Joy of x

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A Grad Student. You're Sticking Your Neck Out

At that time, 19 99, the frequency youre talk i no prediction of gigehert detectors. So it's a combination of sensitivity and operating in that flokaa. The nearest supermassive black holes to us are not feasting. They're actually fasting. And therefore they would be farther away from us. This means you need an instrument that's really sensitive enough to see more distant, growing black holes. Younow would happen not in the most nearby black holes. It doesn't glow at all. An, ah, we see some pidly radio radiation from it, but nothing more.

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