Ep. 680: Rogue Black Holes

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 680: Rogue Black Holes by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on May 1, 2023. Last week we talked about rogue stars. This week we're going to take things up a notch and talk about an even more extreme event. Rogue black holes. Astronomers recently discovered a supermassive black hole on an escape trajectory, leaving newly forming stars in its wake. It's wonderful, terrible, nightmare fuel. Fraser's rogue SMBH article: https://www.universetoday.com/160072/astronomers-spot-a-rogue-supermassive-black-hole-hurtling-through-space-leaving-star-formation-in-its-wake/ The original paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04888.pdf This video was made possible by the following Patreon members: Burry Gowen Stephen Veit Jordan Young Venkatesh Chary Andrew Poelstra Brian Cagle David Truog THANK YOU! - Fraser and Dr. Pamela

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0:00.0	Oh
0:30.0	Ah
0:47.3	a
0:53.5	star made castession six eighty
0:55.5	wrong black hole
0:56.3	output
0:57.4	was found
0:58.6	we know but how we know what we know i'm freezer can i'm the publisher of
1:01.7	university a with me is doctor pamla gay
1:04.1	i see your scientist for the planetary science institute and
1:07.5	the director of cause request
1:08.7	hey pamla you doing
1:09.8	i am doing well how are you doing
1:12.6	i'm doing really well um... like a you know i like i know we talk about the
1:16.5	weather a lot on the channel
1:18.5	but maybe this should just be the weather
1:20.7	podcast weather cast
1:22.6	but uh... but spring arrived finally finally and it it with a
1:27.1	with a roar so
1:28.6	we had records broken all across british clumbia because we had such a
1:32.2	warm
1:33.5	spring day
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