37: Q&A - Black Hole Burps and Space Station Pacman
The Supermassive Podcast
Izzie Clarke
4.6 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Here are the websites to help find Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
https://theskylive.com/
https://in-the-sky.org/
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| 0:00.0 | One side would be like, is there a limit to how big a black hole can grow? |
| 0:05.3 | When we talk about habitable planets, it doesn't mean that they'd necessarily be habitable by humans, |
| 0:10.3 | just that it might be possible for life to be on them. |
| 0:12.5 | So every week, astronauts have a cleaning day on the space station and use a vacuum cleaner. |
| 0:17.5 | That is something that you don't see in the films. |
| 0:22.9 | Hello and welcome to the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, |
| 0:29.2 | science journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smith. Yeah, we finally got a plan |
| 0:35.5 | together and decided we kicked 2023 off with a good old-fashioned |
| 0:39.0 | Q&A episode. And I actually think our listeners broke the record for the amount of |
| 0:44.9 | questions sent in. So thank you everyone. That was very nice. Yeah, although my notifications |
| 0:49.8 | blew up, yeah. R-IP, your phone. Yeah. |
| 0:54.8 | But, you know, everyone knows the drill by now. |
| 0:57.3 | Becky and Robert are on hand to tackle all things, space and astronomy. |
| 1:01.2 | And our editor, Richard Hollingham, is here for all things on space travel. |
| 1:06.6 | So we normally start these things with a space-related fact, and I want you to bring your favourite ones. |
| 1:12.7 | But I want to change that for this year. |
| 1:15.0 | So what is your favourite space-related myth that we, well, you know, not we, maybe we. |
| 1:22.0 | Humans would we. |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.7 | Have now proven incorrect. |
| 1:27.1 | Becky, do you want to start? I mean, I feel like I've brought two, |
| 1:30.2 | because I couldn't decide. I feel like mine aren't really like proven false. It's more the fact |
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