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Starts With A Bang #76 - Supermassive Black Holes
When it comes to the black holes that populate the Universe, they range from the very tiny, of only ~3 solar masses or so and with event horizons tha…
4 years, 2 months ago
Starts With A Bang #75 - Instruments And Mega - Cameras
You know how it works, right? Point your telescopes at the sky, collect the data, and then send it off to the scientists for analysis and to compare …
4 years, 3 months ago
Starts With A Bang #74 - Galaxy Clusters And Their Environments
In the science of astronomy, it's important to see both the forest and the trees. Galaxy clusters, in many ways, serve as both. They're rich environm…
4 years, 4 months ago
Starts With A Bang #73 - Ocean Worlds And So Much More
If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three basic ways to do it. One is to search for intelligent aliens directly: t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Starts With A Bang #72 - The Central Cores Of Galaxies
Practically every galaxy in the Universe has a supermassive black hole at their core. Ranging from millions to many billions of solar masses, these c…
4 years, 6 months ago
Starts With A Bang #71 - Rare Stars And Stargazers
Like everything in the Universe, stars are born, they live a little while, and then they die. But despite their similarities in terms of where they c…
4 years, 7 months ago
Starts With A Bang #70 - The Accelerating Milky Way
When we think about the Universe as a whole, the accelerations that objects experience from our perspective are overwhelmingly due to the expansion o…
4 years, 9 months ago
Starts With A Bang #69 - Machine Learning In Astronomy
When you think about how astronomy works, you probably think about observers pointing telescopes at objects, collecting data about their properties, …
4 years, 9 months ago
Starts With A Bang #68 - Pulsars, Polarization And More
Swarming through our own galaxy, we've detected quite a few bizarre objects: pulsars. These rapidly spinning neutron stars are only a few kilometers …
4 years, 10 months ago
Starts With A Bang #67 - Astroparticles And Dark Matter
If you look out at the Universe and measure all the matter out there, including stars, gas, dust, plasma, black holes, etc., it simply doesn't add up…
4 years, 11 months ago