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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 https://www.mattodowd.space/ 📜 Resolving the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes with Gravitational Microlensing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10500 👉 PBS Spacetime https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/m2xtVfpfeWQ 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

This is an interview with me on the Pale Blue Pod podcast. We did talk about publishing in the space and astronomy sector. Enjoy! 🔵 Pale Blue Pod: https://palebluepod.space/ 📺 Video with Moya McTier: https://youtu.be/DFPfG413F58 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

A strange eye ball world seen by Webb, did ancient astronomers see a kilonova in the sky, extreme moss that could handle Mars, and Ariane 6 flies successfully to space (mostly). 👁️ Anton Petrov's video about the Eyeball planet: https://youtu.be/SQv5yso1CXQ?si=n7FVm-E59YmXLv91 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:15 Eyeball planet https://www.universetoday.com/167735/exoplanet-could-be-an-enormous-version-of-europa/ 02:53 Habitable zones https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slae064/7709457 05:04 Ancient kilonova https://www.universetoday.com/167721/ancient-people-saw-a-kilonova-light-up-the-sky/ 07:26 Moss to terraform Mars https://www.universetoday.com/167715/the-rugged-desert-moss-best-equipped-to-survive-on-mars/ 09:19 Vote results 10:02 Smelly planet https://www.universetoday.com/167728/webb-detects-the-smell-of-rotten-eggs-in-an-exoplanets-atmosphere/ 11:11 Gravitatiionally lensed quasar https://www.universetoday.com/167700/webb-looks-at-one-of-the-best-gravitationally-lensed-quasars-ever-discovered/ 12:08 Intermediate size black hole https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_finds_evidence_for_rare_black_hole_in_Omega_Centauri 14:58 China's DART mission https://www.planetary.org/articles/china-targets-its-first-planetary-defense-test-mission 16:18 Ariane-6 17:47 Reusability 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/NmYdOVbUWeY 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Can stars be born without a parent galaxy? Can quasars destroy life in an entire galaxy? Is there another planet in our Solar System after all? Did the Sun have a sibling star at some point? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:51 Are there stars without a parent galaxy? 04:43 Can quasars sterilize their galaxies? 08:57 Did we find Dyson spheres? 13:04 Will I consider using LLMs in my work? 16:32 Is there a ninth planet? 19:19 If no Planet X is found, are black holes the only explanation? 21:25 If nothing spun, would there still be gravity? 23:41 Can telescopes at L2 see on the other side of the Sun? 27:07 Do we have a second star? 29:49 Is going to the Moon before Mars the right idea? 33:21 How do we know single pixel images aren't just noise? 36:44 Can the Sun switch its axis? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/9CsBzBMfPu0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Seeing an Earth-like planet around a Sun-like star isn't possible with current telescopes. The difference in brightness is just too big. But future space telescopes will have multiple tricks up their sleeve specifically for that. Which ones? Finding out in this interview. 🟣 Guest: Dr Bertrand Mennesson https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/mennesson/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:16 Resolving Earth-size world around a Sun-like star 08:13 Coronagraphs and Adaptive optics 21:10 Other ideas 34:59 Nulling 39:00 Nancy Grace Roman 43:19 Unlimited budget telescope 49:58 Current obsessions 53:33 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/pk9dLIw3IEM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Plate tectonics could be incredibly rare, LEGO bricks made from actual space rocks, mapping the Milky Way’s dark matter halo, and Perseverance’s SHERLOC instrument is fully operational again. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:17 Rare plate tectonics https://www.universetoday.com/167659/plate-tectonics-might-only-occur-on-0-003-of-planets-that-makes-earth-very-special-indeed/ 02:44 Findings from OSIRIS-REx samples https://www.universetoday.com/167594/asteroid-samples-were-once-part-of-a-wetter-world/ 04:21 Fast internet for the ISS https://www.universetoday.com/167625/the-space-station-now-has-blisteringly-fast-internet/ 05:43 Space LEGO bricks https://www.universetoday.com/167675/lego-bricks-printed-out-of-space-dust/ 07:10 Vote results 08:06 Mapping Milky Way's dark natter halo https://kiaa.pku.edu.cn/info/1031/9340.htm 10:21 Mars meteorites https://www.universetoday.com/167645/basketball-sized-meteorites-strike-the-surface-of-mars-every-day/ 11:49 Lunar swirls https://www.universetoday.com/167646/mysterious-swirls-on-the-moon-could-be-explained-by-underground-magma/ 13:02 Mars recovery https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/detective-work-enables-perseverance-team-to-revive-sherloc-instrument/ 14:49 Kuiper belt might be bigger than we thought https://www.universetoday.com/167661/more-evidence-that-the-kuiper-belt-is-bigger-than-we-thought/ 16:22 Polars Dawn launch date 17:18 Amazing images and videos 19:23 More space news 20:06 Amazing rescues 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/YGlT8I3IE94 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

China returns samples from the far side of the Moon, SpaceX will be de-orbiting ISS, could you surf the methane waves on Titan, and who knows when Starliner is coming home 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 00:14 Samples from the far side of the Moon 01:41 China test a reusable rocket booster 02:41 SpaceX will deorbit ISS 05:13 Map of nearby stars 06:51 Vote results 07:40 Primordial black holes and dark matter 10:11 Waves on Titan 11:51 Garbage in the Mediterranean 13:05 Starliner still at the ISS 14:08 More space news 15:07 Awesome space images 16:32 Why don't they just 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/1jS8khbMNO0 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

Not every new space mission needs a separate launch and dedicated hardware. With this proposal, there's a huge potential for finding signals from primordial black holes by just using signals from a spacecraft flying to Uranus or Neptune. No additional hardware required. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:39 Gravitational waves detector on a Uranus mission 00:15:05 Gravitational wavelengths 00:22:54 How could the mission be better 00:35:25 Direct collapse of black holes 00:50:37 Observing black hole accretion disks 00:58:59 Current obsessions 01:05:35 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/XfOxNJvSvf4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

How often do objects fall into the Sun? Why do some stars explode as novae, not as Type 1a supernovae? Can the US Army just donate NASA a Hubble 2? Will humans be living underground on Mars? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:37 [Andoria] Why nova, not a Type 1a supernova? 05:15 [Vulcan] How often objects fall into the Sun? 06:42 [Risa] Can US army gift NASA a Hubble 2? 09:55 [Aeturen] What findings can prioritize their colonization? 12:36 [Vendikar] What are the chances that NASA will abandon Artemis? 15:06 [Remus] Would lunar dust be an issue for lunar telescopes? 17:07 [Janus] Will humans on Mars live underground? 20:10 [Cait] Are there plans to visit Uranus? 23:42 [Betazed] How do black holes keep up with the conservation of angular momentum? 25:43 [Cheleb] What is the most exciting discovery in astronomy in recent years? 27:52 [Nimbus] Did efforts to search for life outside planet Earth have intensified over time? 32:18 [Belos] Do all neutron star collisions create black holes? 35:08 [Lyar] What is the slowest speed in the Universe? 36:25 [Zalcon] Can we see the back of own head with a no-limits-telescope? 37:56 [Arret] Does anyone think our loudness in space will attract a dangerous civilization? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/tq6OIzSmeKg 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast

AI is practically everywhere right now. But what practical use does it have in science? How can machine learning and large language models help in Astronomy and Cosmology? What can they look like and what use can we get out of them? 🟣 Guest: Dr Mike Smith https://www.mjjsmith.com/ 👉 AstroPT on GitHub: https://github.com/Smith42/astroPT 👉 AstroPT Discord: discord.gg/MNEVegvfJq 📜 AstroPT: Scaling Large Observation Models for Astronomy https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14930 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:40 AI in modern science 05:33 Astronomy data for AstroPT 10:50 How does it work 17:15 How people can use AstroPT 19:58 Training data 22:45 Better understanding of Physics 28:58 What's next 38:51 The perfect data to feed AI 43:55 Current obsessions 47:40 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/SexDIF__8l4 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast