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The Radio Wave Mystery That Changed Astronomy
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Radio Astronomy - The First Pulsar
Joscelyn has a bachelor's degree in physics and wants to be an astronomer. She starts graduate school at cambridge, where she helps build the radio telescope that she used detect the first pulsar. At the time, astronomers had only ever detected about 20 of these elusive quasars. We now know that their galaxy mass things. They have a huge black hole in their centre, which really dominates their behavior. And we probably know of thousands by now.
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