• 120: Biggest Small Black Hole

  • Apr 29 2024
  • Length: 49 mins
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120: Biggest Small Black Hole

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  • This week, a new Black Hole Record (kinda), and with it a nice conundrum. the GAIA mission has found the biggest black hole ... of the stellar-mass variety ... in our galaxy. A lot of caveats there, but the fun thing is, it's just next door, which makes us wonder if that's coincidence or a harbinger of more big black holes to come in GAIA's data dumps! Plus, a riddle: why do we keep spotting black holes that are too big to make? Did we break physics? Emily has a few explanations.

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    Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

    • The Biggest (small) Black Hole (in our galaxy)

    • The rapid-release paper

    • The GAIA mission

    • GAIA’s data release schedule

    • Types of Black Hole

    • LIGO gravitational wave telescope

    • Quasi-stars

    • Syzygy Episode 116: Black Hole Sun
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