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Runaway Black Holes and Certified Organic Asteroids
Episode 311
Astronomers have sighted a supermassive black hole ejected from its host galaxy and creating a wake of stars from intergalactic gas. And if that wasn…
3 years, 6 months ago
Whacky Water and Weird Rings
Episode 310
Where would you go and what would you bring with you if you could explore any object in the universe? Our cosmologist Jim Cooney wants to look for al…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Trouble with Neutrinos and Other Mysteries
Episode 309
Neutrinos are slippery little buggers, and a new experiment is tightening the net to pin down their itsy-bitsy mass. Closer to home, the Earth's core…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Tiniest Wormhole
Episode 308
Scientists have created a simulation of a wormhole in a quantum computer. Top quark helps us understand the significance of this as well as reminds u…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Super Earth Assembly Line
Episode 307
Our own solar system is lacking in one of the most common types of planet, the Super Earth. These large rocky planets have a cookie-cutter characteri…
3 years, 7 months ago
On Top of Nuclear Fusion
Episode 306
Top quark Jim Cooney rejoins the crew and gives us a deep dive into the breakthrough in nuclear fusion at the National Ignition Facility. Mars rover …
3 years, 7 months ago
All About STEVE and GRBs
Episode 305
The astroquarks get Down with it as we welcome Dr. Audrey Martin back as the Down astroquark for a discussion of the strange auroral phenomenon known…
3 years, 8 months ago
Trojans and Axions
Episode 304
Europa's got miniature tectonic activity, and a dark matter candidate may real itself through micro-gravitational lensing events. Dr. Audrey Martin j…
3 years, 8 months ago
Up, Up, and Away
Episode 303
Artemis 1, the most powerful rocket to ever leave the Earth, is up and on its way to the Moon after more hydrogen leaks than we care to remember, and…
3 years, 9 months ago
Chasing Geotail and Martian Impacts
Episode 301
The Mars Insight lander detected an impact that produced a stadium-sized crater on the red planet, and the 30-year magnetospheric mission Geotail com…
3 years, 10 months ago