Ep. 643: Sagittarius A*

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 643: Sagittarius A* by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay All the waiting is over, we've finally seen the image of the event horizon from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. Different shaped blobs! And a black circle in the middle. What are we looking at? Today we're going to explain the picture, and what's next for the Event Horizon Telescope.

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0:00.0	Oh
0:30.2	What do we do?
0:39.2	Athronomycast, episode 643, SAAG ASTAR.
0:55.6	Welcome to the Astronomycast for Weekly Facts Based Journey Through The Cosmos, where we
0:58.5	help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
1:01.7	I'm Fr. King, publisher of University with me is always the Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist
1:06.0	for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmicalist, hey, Pamela, how
1:10.0	are you doing?
1:11.0	I am doing well.
1:12.0	I am continuing to bat 100% on having clouds during the Clipsis.
1:17.4	Yeah, we do too.
1:20.6	So I am just so happy to have seen so many photos from so many people last night.
1:26.0	It was truly amazing.
1:27.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:28.7	It's a good placement.
1:29.7	I mean, the best placement, obviously, is right over me, but it was a pretty good placement
1:35.1	for a lot of people to be able to see it.
1:36.8	Everyone in South America, everyone, most people in North America could see it, bits
1:40.4	of Europe.
1:42.4	So, but yeah, it was, you know, even if it, like I'm glad, because we had such terrible
1:46.1	weather, it was stormy last night.
1:49.2	So, that's fine.
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