Hunting for Black Holes, with Janna Levin - StarTalk All-Stars

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🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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If light can’t escape from black holes, how can we observe them at all? Find out from astrophysicist Janna Levin, co-host Matt Kirshen, and Shep Doeleman, the MIT astrophysicist leading the Event Horizon Telescope project to study black hole Sgr A* at the center of our galaxy. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0	This is StarTalk.
0:02.0	Welcome to StarTalk All Stars.
0:11.0	I'm Jan 11 and I'm your All Star host today.
0:13.8	I'm an astrophysicist and author, but nowhere near is interesting as my co-host, the incredibly
0:18.7	talented Matt Kirshin, Matt, welcome to New York.
0:21.1	Hey, thank you for welcoming both here and to the show and for pointing out that I'm
0:24.7	more interested in an astrophysicist.
0:25.7	That's right and we're going to hold you to that for the rest of the hour.
0:28.6	I'm more interested.
0:29.6	Also, in the studio, we have special guest, Shepherd Dolman, who has a long list of accomplishments,
0:35.0	including getting through graduate school at MIT, same year as me.
0:37.9	And getting through the school.
0:39.4	Getting me through general relativity.
0:41.8	Shepp is an astrophysicist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the
0:46.1	Director of the Event Horizon Telescope Project.
0:49.7	Event Horizon Telescope is a fantastic project not yet complete, still under development.
0:55.5	It is a telescope, essentially the size of the entire Earth that is going to try to take
1:00.4	the first real picture of a black hole.
1:04.1	Very exciting stuff.
1:05.1	So this is what we're going to talk about today.
1:06.3	It's a good day's work if we can pull it off.
1:08.0	It's a good day's work.
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