What Does a Black Hole Look Like: How We Got our First Picture (With Prof. Eliot Quataert)
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
English - September 15, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsAstronomy Science astronomy free talks space science science space astrophysics fraknoi cosmology astronomers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Black holes are one of the most remarkable predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity: so much material is compressed into such a small volume that nothing, not even light, can escape. In Spring 2019, the world-wide Event Horizon Telescope released the first real picture of gas around a massive black hole and the “shadow” it makes as the gas swirls into the black hole. Dr. Quataert (University of California, Berkeley) describes how these pioneering observations were made and what they have taught us about black holes.
Recorded on Jan. 22, 2020