Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society.

With me, science journalist Izzy Clark, astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst and the Society's deputy director, Dr. Robert Massey.

This is the place where we dive into the supermassive mailbox, which is really living up to its name

right now and answer all of your questions. We've also had this amazing message from Alex and we've

helped him face his fears and I'm very proud of that. This is his message. He says, I just wanted to

say that I had a super massive fear of the dentist when I was younger. I finally went back to the dentist

as an adult and needed some fillings. I listened to your podcast every time I sat in the chair

because it's the perfect thing to calm my nerves and gave me something else to focus on. Thank you

for what you do and please keep doing it. Well, you're very welcome, Alex, and a shout out to everyone currently listening

in a dentist chair with their mouth wide open.

I hope this thinks you giggle

and really confuses your dentist.

Yeah, but then it got me thinking,

where are the other unique places

that people have listened to this podcast?

So if you are listening to this in a

rather unusual place, let us know on Instagram or you can email podcast at rias.ac.org.

Right. On to the questions. Becky, can you help with this one from Matt in Australia? He says,

Hi, Izzy, Becky, Robert and producer Richard. Love the podcast. I started listening about

six months ago and have finally caught up and I had a question about pulsars. Do pulsars wobble

or are they permanently blasting their rays in the exact same direction? Thanks.

So the pulsars don't wobble map, but their magnetic fields do. So

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