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Mapping a Galaxy's Dark Matter and a Game-Changing Space Telescope
Episode 432
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope sees 100 times more sky than the Hubble Space Telescope and has the ability to directly image planets around ot…
15 hours ago
Black Hole Stars and Solar Instabilities
Episode 431
What do you call a very-but-not-so-supermassive black hole completely encased in a warm dense cloud of hydrogen? A hot mess? How about "black hole st…
1 week ago
Dyson Spheres and Interstellar Colonization
Episode 430
Strange and Top are at it again with a deep dive on the physics, psychology, and philosophy of the big questions: is there technologically advanced l…
2 weeks ago
Black Holes Come Back for Seconds and a Rocky Exoplanet with an Atmosphere
Episode 429
Supermassive have such voracious appetites that they create an energetic mess when eating which has a tendency to shoot their food off at very high s…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Distant Quasars and Earth's Quasi-Moon
Episode 428
Quasars, the energetic engines driven by the voracious appetite of supermassive black holes, have been observed in the very early universe, upending …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
I See a Big Moon Rising and a Bright Radio Sky
Episode 427
The astroquarks examine the oft-asked question of why the Moon sometimes looks huge and other times, not so much, and we take a look at the cool miss…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Europa's Disappearing Plumes
Episode 426
OG Top Quark Tracy Becker joins us with an update on water plumes from Jupiter's moon Europa, plus intriguing new data of interstellar comet 3I shows…
2 months ago
Second Generation Black Hole Mergers and Solar System Chaos
Episode 425
Exquisitely detailed measurements of the ripples in spacetime from the mergers of black holes now show that some of these merging black holes were, t…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Whacky Black Hole Collisions and Strange Uranian Rings
Episode 424
Mysterious bright blue flashes from relatively empty parts of the universe have a new possible explanation involving, what else, black holes. We expl…
3 months, 1 week ago
Little Plutino Has An Atmosphere and Making Sense of Saturn
Episode 423
A Plutino, an object that shares Pluto's orbit but which is much smaller than Pluto, appears to have a very thin global atmosphere. We discuss the de…
3 months, 2 weeks ago