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Starts With A Bang #104 - The Magnetized Galactic Center
Have you ever wondered what the full story with the galactic center is? Sure, we have stars, gas, and an all-important supermassive black hole, but for hundreds of light-years around the center, th…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Starts With A Bang #103 - Active galaxies and the universe
All throughout the Universe, galaxies exist in a great variety of shapes, ages, and states. Today's galaxies come in spirals, ellipticals, irregulars, and rings, all ranging in size from behemoths hu…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Starts With a Bang #102 - The missing exoplanets
Up until the early 1990s, we didn't know what sorts of planets lived around stars other than our Sun. Were they like our own Solar System, with inner, rocky planets close to our star and large, giant…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Starts With A Bang #101 - Quantum Computing
Happy new year, everyone, and with a new year comes a spectacular new podcast! We normally cover an intricate and underappreciated aspect of astrophysics on the podcast, but I had the opportunity to …
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang podcast #100 - Galaxies in the JWST era
It's hard to believe, but it was only back just a year and a half ago, in mid-2022, that we had yet to encounter the very first science images released by JWST. In the time that's passed since, we've…
Published on 2 years ago
Starts With a Bang #99 - Varying and evolving stars
You might not think about it very often, but when it comes to the question of "how old is a star that we're observing," there are some very simple approximations that we make: measure its mass, radiu…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago
Starts With A Bang #98 - The Line Between Star And Planet
Out there in the Universe, there's a whole lot more than simply what we find in our own Solar System. Here at home, the largest, most massive object is the Sun: a bright, hot, luminous star, while …
Published on 2 years, 2 months ago
Starts With A Bang #97 - Tiny Galaxies and Us
When we look at our nearby Universe, it's easy to recognize our own galaxy and the other large, massive ones that are nearby: Andromeda, the major galaxies in nearby groups like Bode's Galaxy, the gr…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Starts With a Bang #96 - Detecting the Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background
We all knew, if Einstein's General Theory of Relativity were in fact the correct theory of gravity, that it would only be a matter of time before we detected one of its unmistakable predictions: th…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Starts With A Bang #95 - Supermassive Black Holes and more
Sometimes, it's hard to believe we've come as far as we have, scientifically, in such a short period of time. We only began accumulating the first very strong evidence for supermassive black holes du…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago