Dr. Tim Cunningham -- White Dwarfs Sometimes Eat Planets
A white dwarf star is the compact, dense remnant of a once-thriving solar system. Long after the original star has died and turned into a white dwarf, it can still interact with its solar system. We...
1 Nov 20251h 15min
Dr. Merel van 't Hoff -- The Birth of the Planets
How did the planets form? What was going on in the first few brief million years of our solar system? And how did it impact what we see in our solar system today? Dr. Merel van 't Hoff takes us on ...
1 Okt 202558min
Dr. Wen-Fai Fong -- The Neutron Star Mash
What kinds of things do neutron stars do? They can smash into each other, producing bright flashes of radiation and strong ripples in spacetime that can be detected across the universe! Or, a neutro...
1 Sep 202543min
Dr. Daniel D'Orazio -- The Black Hole Shuffle
Just how big can black holes get? Well, they can get super-massive! That is, millions to billions of times as massive as the sun. How do we know this? We've detected these supermassive black holes...
1 Aug 20251h 3min
Dr. Abigail Polin -- Astrophysics Q & A
In this week's episode, Dr. Abigail Polin joins us to answer your questions from the internet, on a variety of topics tangentially related to astrophysics! Questions range from the basic and fundamen...
1 Juli 20251h 25min
Dr. Andrea Derdzinski -- How do we see black holes?
A black hole is so dense, its gravitational field prevents anything from escaping, including light. You would think that would make them the "blackest" things in the universe; how in the world do we ...
1 Juni 202555min
Dr. Jared Goldberg -- Does Betelgeuse have a Betelbuddy?
Up in Orion's shoulder sits Betelgeuse, a supergiant star near the end of its life. The surface of Betelgeuse has been roiling and pulsing for centuries, as long as humans have recorded its modulated ...
1 Maj 20251h 4min
Dr. Yvette Cendes -- Black Holes on the Radio
What happens when a black hole eats up a star? Apparently a lot of things happen, and if you wait around awhile and look in the radio, even more things happen! Dr. Yvette Cendes tells us what it's l...
1 Apr 202553min
