Supermassive Black Holes | The Daily Space

Black Hole’s Dust Ring Casting Shadows

Nov 24, 2020 | Active Galaxies, Daily Space, Galaxies, Jupiter, Milky Way, Our Solar System, Saturn, Supermassive Black Holes, Very Large Array

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Summary Once again, we find that dust is the culprit, this time causing a black hole to cast shadows out from the heart of its galaxy. Plus, a fossil galaxy in the Milky Way, newborn jets, and more. Transcript This is...

Bumper Crop of Gravitational Wave Events Detected!

Nov 1, 2020 | AAS, Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Cosmology, Daily Space, Exoplanets, JAXA, Jupiter, Neptune, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System, Saturn, Supermassive Black Holes, Titan, Uranus

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Yesterday, we talked about the accelerated timeline for OSIRIS-REx to stow the sample from Bennu. And we said we would update you all once we had new information. Of course, right after we went off the air...

Did we mention OSIRIS-REx sampled Bennu this week?

Oct 22, 2020 | Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Daily Space, Milky Way, OSIRIS-REx, Supermassive Black Holes, Very Large Array

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript In case you have been hiding under a rock, the OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully booped the rubble pile asteroid Bennu. IMAGE: Artist’s impression showing the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending...

Exoplanet guardians, quasar jets, and a globular cluster

Oct 16, 2020 | Daily Space, Exoplanets, Globular Cluster, Quasar, Supermassive Black Holes

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Sometimes, we get papers and press releases where the cool news and the news they are trying to push forward are not entirely the same thing. Today, we received a pair of press releases about a new paper in...

Death by Spaghettification!

Oct 13, 2020 | Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Daily Space, Gemini South, Observatories, OSIRIS-REx, Stars, Supermassive Black Holes

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript There are certain words that are simply pleasing. They are a combination of sounds and mouth movements that just feel good. Arugula. I, for one, am fond of the word arugula even if I’m not entirely fond of...

Martian Dunes; Carina Nebula; Nobel Prize in Physics

Oct 7, 2020 | Daily Space, Gemini North, Mars, Nebulae, Star Forming Region, Supermassive Black Holes

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, we do not have a transcript for today’s show. We apologize. If one becomes available in the future, we will edit this post. Stay tuned after the news for an...