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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 w…
2 years, 6 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 ve…
2 years, 7 months ago
Starts With A Bang #94 - Dark Energy And Cosmic Growth
We have a pretty good idea of both what's in our Universe and how it grew up. But it's only because we have several different, completely independe…
2 years, 8 months ago
Starts With A Bang #93 - Mars From The Ground
One of the most exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth doesn't require us going very far. While Mercury and the Moon have no atmosphere and V…
2 years, 9 months ago
Starts With A Bang #92 - Type Ia Supernovae
Back in the 1990s, observations of type Ia supernovae were the key data set that led astronomers to conclude that the Universe's expansion was acce…
2 years, 10 months ago
Starts With A Bang podcast #91 — Hypermassive neutron stars
When stars are born, they can come with a wide variety of masses. But there are only a few ways that stars can die, and only a few types of remnants …
2 years, 11 months ago
Starts With A Bang #90 - How Galaxies Grow Up
One of the great advances of 20th and 21st century science has been, for the first time to show us two things: how the Universe began and what the Un…
3 years ago
Starts With A Bang #89 - The active threat of the Sun
For life on Earth, there's no more important source of energy than the Sun; without it, it's doubtful that life would have arisen on Earth, and it ce…
3 years, 1 month ago
Starts With A Bang #88 - From dust till cosmic dawn
For a cosmologist like me, "cosmic dust" is a thing that's in the way, confounding our data about the pristine Universe, and it's a thing to be under…
3 years, 2 months ago
Starts With A Bang #87 - AGNs From The South Pole
Episode 87
The supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies is a tremendously interesting area of research, advancing rapidly over the past few years. Wh…
3 years, 3 months ago