Previously the only way to image black holes was with the Event Horizon Telescope, a combination of many radio telescopes across the globe. It is complicated and time-consuming. But with Vera Rubin going online soon, there might be a simpler way to observe black holes with a single telescope using a really clever method.

🟣 Guest: Dr Matt O'Dowd
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📜 Resolving the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes with Gravitational
Microlensing
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10500

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• 00:00 Intro
• 01:45 Observing gravitationally lensed quasars
• 12:58 Why Vera Rubin
• 19:04 Best case scenario
• 23:22 What do we know about black holes
• 38:21 Current obsessions
• 44:31 Final thoughts

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