Dr. Rosalba Perna -- The Neighborhood of a Supermassive Black Hole
Planets orbit stars, and moons orbit planets, so what orbits a supermassive black hole? Possibly a whole lot of stuff, including a gaseous disk, thousands of stars and more "normal size" black holes!...
1 Jul 20241h 4min
Dr. Soham Mandal -- What Happens to Supernovae After they Explode?
When a star explodes, it's not finished having an impact on its surroundings. For the next thousand years or so, we can still see it as a supernova remnant, when the explosion has expanded to large e...
1 Jun 202450min
Dr. Yuan Li -- Our Turbulent Universe
What is turbulence? You've probably experienced it before on a plane (or perhaps on a river) but you might not know precisely what it is. But turbulence is all around us, and in particular we find i...
1 Mai 202456min
Dr. Ashley Villar -- Big Data in Astrophysics
Astronomers deal with huge datasets, and they are about to get even bigger with the construction of the Vera Rubin Observatory. When you can detect a million supernovae per year, how do we make sense...
1 Apr 20241h 3min
Dr. Frank Timmes -- Pulsing White Dwarfs, Neutrinos, and the Infrastructure of Research
What are neutrinos and where do they come from? How do we know what's going on in the interior of a star when we can only see the surface? How does a paper get accepted into a scientific journal? We d...
1 Mar 202457min
Dr. Erica Nelson -- Watching the First Galaxies Form
How did the galaxies form and how can we learn about them? Professor Erica Nelson of the University of Colorado, Boulder tells us how we use the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look back in time...
1 Feb 202459min
Dr. Abigail Polin -- A New Type of Supernova
How do stars explode? It turns out there's more than one way, and Professor Abigail Polin has discovered a totally new way that stars can end their lives. We talk with Professor Polin about how that w...
1 Jan 20241h 3min
