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Forbidden Black Hole Merger and Chaos on Europa
Episode 401
We discuss the largest black hole merger observed to date, between two black holes that are in the so-called forbidden mass range. They must have bee…
1 year, 1 month ago
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is Out Of This World
Episode 400
The astroquarks celebrate 400 episodes with a special sponsor, a special stumper, and a special interstellar comet making its way through our solar s…
1 year, 1 month ago
Vera Rubin Observatory Sets Sights on the Universe
Episode 399
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started making observations with the world's largest optical detector boasting over 3 billion pixels at the back of…
1 year, 1 month ago
Supernova Hazards and Cloudy With a Chance of Sand
Episode 398
We're all about the weather on this episode, with a new study showing that even relatively distant supernova may have affected the Earth's climate in…
1 year, 2 months ago
Cool Planetary Cores and Lava Fountains Galore
Episode 397
Original top quark Tracy Becker is back to bring us up to speed Europa Clipper's flyby of Mars, and we learn about a new way for planetary cores to f…
1 year, 2 months ago
The End of the Universe As We Know It and We Feel Fine
Episode 396
A major update to the predicted end of the universe has it coming much earlier than previously anticipated. However, we still have plenty of time to …
1 year, 3 months ago
A Slurping Black Hole and a Win for the Streaming Instability
Episode 395
We get lucky and catch a rogue supermassive black hole in the act of slurping up a star as it meanders through a distant galaxy. Closer to home, the …
1 year, 3 months ago
Vesta Chip Off the Old Block and a Nearby Dark Molecular Cloud
Episode 394
The asteroid Vesta may be a fragment of a much larger protoplanet, and astronomers examine old data to discover a large molecular cloud lurking right…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ultralight Dark Matter and Peanut Asteroid Hot Take
Episode 393
NASA's Lucy mission had a picture perfect encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson on its way to the first ever flybys of Trojan asteroids. Discove…
1 year, 4 months ago
Hot Takes on Water on Earth and Black Hole Singularities
Episode 392
The astroquarks discover hot takes and explore the nature of ice, the origin of Earth's water, and the trouble with the singularities at the hearts o…
1 year, 4 months ago