Intermediate Mass Black Holes: fact or fiction? Dr. Becky 2026-09-23 | Intermediate Mass Black Holes: fact or fiction?
JWST finds galaxy where the gas outshines the stars?! | Night Sky News October 2024 Dr. Becky 2024-10-17 | The first 100 people to sign up with my trainwell link go.trainwell.net/DrBecky get 14-days FREE + $25 off on their 1st month! - AD | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for October 2024! This is the show where we chat about what you should look out for in the night sky in the next month, and what’s been happening in space news in the past month. In this episode we’re chatting about SO many things, including which planets you can spot in the night sky, how to get a last look at C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) before it gets too faint, plus the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024 for AI tools which went to Geoffery Hinton and John Hopfield, the launch of the Europa Clipper mission and the Hera mission, Earth's new min-moon asteroid 2024 PT5, plus JWST's latest discovery of a galaxy in the distant Universe that appears as if the gas outshines the stars. Cameron et al. (2024) - arxiv.org/pdf/2311.02051My previous video chatting to Alex Cameron about his work with JWST: youtube.com/watch?v=oVkDiQjaNFg00:00 Introduction00:54 Orionids Meteor Shower01:54 Comet 2024/A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS03:35 Toenail moon meets Venus & Mercury03:49 Mercury greatest elongation04:42 Saturn, Jupiter & Mars05:13 Mars and Jupiter in the Winter Hexagon06:55 Trainwell AD08:54 Nobel Prize in Physics for AI12:51 Europa Clipper launch14:40 Hera launch to Didymos and Dimorphos 18:07 Earth has a second moon asteroid 2024 PT520:31 JWST's bright gas galaxy GS NDG 942227:43 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV Video edited by Jonny Hyman---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
The biggest JETS from a BLACK HOLE ever found Dr. Becky 2024-10-10 | AD - Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Save 40% off the Vantage plan through my link for unlimited access this month only. Black holes burp. A lot. And we think these burps have a huge impact on how the Universe has evolved. If there’s a strong magnetic field around the black hole, that burp material can get funnelled up and away into a really tight jet. And these jets end up being way bigger than the entire galaxy that we find a black hole in. For example, this galaxy Hercules A is a really famous example of this, with jets than span almost a million light years. But this month, a team of astronomers, Oei and collaborators, reported finding the longest black hole jet ever seen at 23 million light years long. It is HUGE. And while it’s very cool to find the longest or biggest of something out there in the universe, this discovery also has big implications for how the Universe has evolved and galaxies grow. So in this video we’re going to chat about, 1) how Oei and collaborators found this giant black hole jet, Porphyrion, 2) the properties of Porphyrion, and how it compares to all the other black hole jets they found, and 3) what effect black hole jets of this size could have on the universe around them.Oei et al. (2024; Porphyrion discovery paper) - nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07879-yOei et al. (2022; previous largest jet known) - arxiv.org/pdf/2202.05427Mostert et al. (2024; more than 8000 jets found in LOFAR) - arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00232 Correa et al. (2021; cosmic void size distribution) - arxiv.org/pdf/2007.1206400:00 - Introduction02:50 - AD - Ground News04:25 - How they found these jets?07:11 - How do they compare to other jets?11:00 - How do these jets effect the Universe around them?15:21 - Bloopers ---📚 My book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Astrophysicist reacts to Star Trek: The Next Generation Dr. Becky 2024-10-03 | AD | Go to piavpn.com/Becky to get 83% off Private Internet Access with 4 months free! | In this episode of Astrophysicist reacts we're watching Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 Episode 6 "Where No One Has Gone Before" to pick out the science from the fiction in this sci-fi show. We're chatting about faster than light speed travel, warp drives, special relativity including time dilation, and the idea of negative energy. You can watch Star Trek: TNG on Netflix if you're in the UK: netflix.com/title/7015832900:00 - Introduction01:40 - How fast is the Enterprise's warp drive?04:24 - The real equations for warp drive05:52 - How big was the known universe in 198707:22 - Time dilation 08:21 - PIA VPN | AD10:16 - Negative energy, warp drives, and dark energy14:25 - Conclusion16:03 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
JWSTs overmassive galaxies problem SOLVED?! | Night Sky News September 2024 Dr. Becky 2024-09-19 | Want to restore the planet's ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 200 people to join Planet Wild, will get the first month for free at planetwild.com/r/drbecky/joinIf you want to get to know them better first, check out their latest video restoring the American grasslands planetwild.com/r/drbecky/m19Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for September 2024! This is the show where we chat about what you should look out for in the night sky in the next month, and what’s been happening in space news in the past month. In this episode we’re chatting about SO many things, including which planets you can spot in the night sky, the annular solar eclipse visible across South American, how to look out for C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) if it becomes bright enough as it gets closer to the Sun, plus the successful lunar-earth flyby of the JUICE spacecraft on its way to Jupiter, the new hypothesis to explain the famous unexplained Wow! signal (which sadly isn't aliens), and a new explanation for JWST’s “impossible” over-massive galaxies! Timings for your location for the annular solar eclipse 2nd October 2024 - timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-october-2How to safely view an eclipse - science.nasa.gov/eclipses/safetyMore about the JUICE mission - https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/JuiceMendez et al. (2024; wow! signal astrophysical explanation) - arxiv.org/pdf/2408.08513David Kipping’s Cool Worlds deep dive video on the Wow! signal - youtube.com/watch?v=r6rPNPVQp0YChworowsky et al. (2024; JWST’s “overmassive” galaxies explained) - arxiv.org/pdf/2311.14804Labbé et al. (2023; discovery of JWST’s “overmassive” galaxies) - arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12446.pdfSteinhardt et al. (2023; JWST’s “overmassive” galaxies explained by IMF variation) - arxiv.org/pdf/2208.07879.pdf00:00 Introduction00:57 Planets visible this month01:15 Neptune opposition01:41 Saturn opposition02:18 Mars & Juptier & Crescent Moon03:30 Draconids and Orionids meteor showers 05:24 Annular solar eclipse South American 2nd October06:26 Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 07:53 AD09:48 Boeing Starliner return to Earth10:58 JUICE lunar-Earth fly-by successful13:18 Wow! signal explanation (not aliens)18:23 JWST’s overmassive galaxies explained24:26 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV Video edited by Jonny Hyman---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
The search for life on Jupiters moon Europa - the Europa Clipper Mission Dr. Becky 2024-09-12 | AD - Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Save 40% off the Vantage plan through my link for unlimited access this month only. | Where are we likely to find life in our Solar System outside of Earth? Mars, Venus, or maybe even Europa? A moon of Jupiter. The more we study the moons of the gas giants, the more they surprise us, with Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan turning out to look like pretty good candidates for finding life. Enceladus even has plumes, big geysers of water, coming from its poles suggesting there’s a liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust. The Cassini mission even flew through those plumes and found that water even contains the building blocks for life. And there’s a lot of moons that also have this icy crust that are thought to be hiding a liquid water ocean underneath them. One of those is in orbit around Europa, which is why NASA have decided to send the Europa Clipper mission to investigate which launches very soon in October 2024, but won’t arrive at the Jupiter system until 2030. And it’s main mission is to work out if Europa is habitable to life or not? More on the Europa Clipper mission - europa.nasa.gov00:00 Introduction01:51 AD - Ground News03:33 - What’s europa like and why do we think it has a liquid ocean? 06:28 - Why did NASA pick Europa over e.g. Saturn’s moon Enceladus?07:53 - What experiments will the Europa Clipper mission do test whether Europa is habitable?10:57 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Is AEROCAPTURE how well eventually send a mission to Uranus or Neptune? Dr. Becky 2024-09-10 | Look I want a mission to go to Uranus and Neptune as much as the next person, but it’s annoyingly not as simple as just yeeting a spacecraft out to the edge of the solar system, because otherwise it’ll just fly straight past the planets. That’s what Voayger 2 did in the 80s, the first and only probe to visit Uranus and Neptune. If you want to actually stop and orbit one of the ice giants to study it in the way Cassini did around Saturn, or Juno is doing around Jupiter, you’ve got to break and slow down somehow. And that’s the hard part. For example, when Juno arrived at Jupiter in 2016, it was traveling at about 165,000 miles per hour. So to slow down, Juno turned around and burnt a load of fuel to fire its engine against its direction of travel, slowing it down enough to be captured by Jupiter’s gravity. So you might be thinking, well why don’t we just do that when we send a craft to Uranus and Neptune then? But the problem is that to get a spacecraft that far out in the Solar System you need a lot of fuel, and you need to accelerate it up to a huge speed, which means you need even more fuel to then slow it down when it gets to the ice giants. And the more fuel you need to break, the heavier your spacecraft gets, and the more fuel you need to launch it until the amount of fuel you need just becomes unfeasible. Not to mention that fuel is expensive. So NASA and ESA are investigating something known as aerocapture when a spacecraft uses a planet's atmosphere to slow down. Instead of using fuel, it dips into the thick atmosphere, creating drag as all those air molecules hit the spacecraft and slow it down. Think of it like skimming a rock across a pond, but in space! But this is fraught with danger, you’ve got to hit the atmosphere at a precise angle. Too steep, and the craft burns up. Too shallow, and it bounces off back into space and doesn’t enter into orbit. If we could do this it would reduce the amount of fuel needed, allowing for more scientific instruments on the craft instead, and make a mission cheaper so that they’re more likely to be funded. So fingers crossed!#shorts #spacetravel #space #science #physics
How do we know the size of the Solar System? | Measuring an Astronomical Unit Dr. Becky 2024-09-05 | AD | To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/DrBecky and you'll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. | How do we know the scale of the Solar System? How do we know that the Earth is around 150 million km from the Sun? Sure today we can use radar to bounce light back and forth between objects to work out how far away they are, but before that, it’s not like people could break out a giant tape measure to do this, scientists had to get clever about it, they had to use trigonometry to get at the very first measurement of the distance of the Earth from the Sun in the early 1700s using a transit of Venus, and in doing so unlock the entire scale of the Solar System. So this video, is for anyone that’s ever said that trigonometry is not useful, because it most definitely is! If you’re an astronomer anyway...More in-depth look at the maths behind this calculation: http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Svenus1.htmVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Renovating my new office PART 5 - NEW LIGHTS! Dr. Becky 2024-08-30 | There is something I’ve been meaning to do in my new office for ages and that’s install some lights on my shelves. Because the background of my videos since I moved house have been looking a bit, well dark. Basically, we need what’s known in the biz as a backlight, or a hair light, placed behind someone to help separate them from the background. It was such a simple job installing them, but because I had to take everything off the shelves to do it, I kept putting it off, but we’re all good now, so the background of my videos will now look like this from now on. I like the light blue colour best, but let me know which colour you like in the comments. Next up is to get some more fun stuff for my shelves, because at the minute, it’s just Sam’s car LEGO on here, and apart from the Space Shuttle, I think we need some more space-y things on here!#shorts #office #homeoffice
JWST discovers NEW PLANET - its the coldest, oldest exoplanet ever imaged Dr. Becky 2024-08-29 | AD - Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Save 40% off the Vantage plan through my link for unlimited access this month only. - I never ever get tired of seeing images we’ve taken of other worlds - other planets orbiting distant stars in our galaxy the Milky Way. This is very difficult to do though, because the star is so bright, and the planet reflecting the starlight so dim in comparison, the contrast between them is huge. We actually have to fully block the light from the star by putting a mask over the centre of the telescope, called a chronograph. JWST has one of these chronographs too, and this month we saw the latest direct image it had taken this time of the planet Epsilon Indi Ab which was published in this research paper by Matthews and collaborators. Now this image was a big deal for a few reasons, first it was actually a discovery image of the planet, it’s one of the coldest and oldest exoplanets to ever be directly imaged, AND is the closest planet to Earth that’s more massive than Jupiter at around 12 light years away. So exciting for a number of reasons and in this video we’re going to dive into why it’s exciting and what we can learn from it. Matthews et al. (2024; JWST discovers Epsilon Indi Ab in direct image) - nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07837-8Feng et al. (2019; hints there was a planet around Epsilon Indi A) - arxiv.org/pdf/1910.06804My previous video on the Roman Space Telescope - youtube.com/watch?v=-EiTby2Lku8My previous video on the Habitable Worlds Observatory - youtube.com/watch?v=z2JIkAPcdnUMy previous video on how we know how old the Sun is - youtube.com/watch?v=IMogF5W7PbwVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
What is reality? Get The Reality Issue of Nautilus Magazine before 31st August! #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-08-27 | Nautilus is my favourite science magazine, and their latest issue is all about Reality - what is real? What is not? And how do we know the difference? My mind was blown reading it! Orders for their latest issue close on Aug 31st so make sure you don’t miss out. Get 3 magazines as part of your introduction to @NautilusMag save 15% on a membership, and check out their latest merch drop by visiting joinnautilus.com/drbecky#physics #science #reality #blackholes
JWST has turned the Crisis in Cosmology into a bigger problem | Night Sky News August 2024 Dr. Becky 2024-08-22 | AD | To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/DrBecky and you'll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for August 2024. This is the show where we chat about what you should look out for in the night sky in the next month, and what’s been happening in space news in the past month. In this episode we’ve got to chat about JWST’s long awaited look at the crisis in cosmology (aka the Hubble Tension) which it turns out it hasn’t solved like we thought earlier in the year, plus how NASA astronauts are currently stuck on board the International Station, along with the installation of the Rubin Observatory's secondary mirror, AND chat about the new evidence that there’s water reservoirs underground on Mars! And of course we'll touch on how to spot the planets in the sky in the next month, including the crescent Moon pairing with Mars, Jupiter and the Pleiades star cluster at the end of August. Timings for the lunar eclipse for your location - timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2024-september-18Previous video on Freedman's research group's claims on the Crisis in Cosmology back in April - youtu.be/yKmPJmaeP8APrevious videos on the Crisis in Cosmology - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUf5TRqYoMYxEwjT6JIDW4ZnPrevious video on the Rubin Observatory - youtu.be/X3N-DjVXh44Previous video on the Roman Space Telescope - youtu.be/-EiTby2Lku8Wright et al. (2024; water reservoirs underground on Mars) - pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409983121Freedman et al. (2024; JWST's look at the crisis in cosmology from CCHP) - arxiv.org/pdf/2408.06153Lee et al. (2024; JAGB stars used to calculate the hubble constant CCHP) - arxiv.org/pdf/2408.03474Bellazini et al. (2004; TRGB stars used to calculate hubble constant) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0404572Planck collaboration (2015; best model of the Universe from the CMB) - arxiv.org/pdf/1502.01589Yuan et al. (2022; first look at cepheids with JWST, no crowding) - arxiv.org/pdf/2209.09101Riess et al. (2024; JWST observations of cepheids to calculate the hubble constant, no crowding) - arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04773Anand et al. (2024; JWST observations of TRGB stars used to calculate the hubble constant, SHoES) - arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04776Li et al. (2024; observations of TRGB stars used to calculate the hubble constant, SHoES) - arxiv.org/pdf/2408.00065Dan Scolnic Twitter - https://x.com/DScolDeep Anand Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/styrofoamplates.bsky.social00:00 Introduction00:52 Six planets visible at the end of August02:16 Orion returns 02:34 Saturn opposition03:12 Supermoon in September04:26 Partial Lunar eclipse September 05:38 AD | Brilliant07:07 Boeing Starliner update09:05 Vera Rubin Observatory secondary mirror installed 10:27 Water reservoirs underground on Mars 13:34 Crisis in Cosmology: recap21:48 JWST and the Crisis in Cosmology - new research from Freedman et al.30:56 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV Video edited by Jonny Hyman---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
The Moon occults Saturn on Wednesday 21st August 2024 Dr. Becky 2024-08-19 | In the early morning of the 21st august the full moon will fully occult Saturn - occult comes from a latin word which means “to hide” something - which is exactly what happens here the moon as it moves along its orbit will pass in front of Saturn and hide it for a while. Now because of the angles involved for the moon to fully block Saturn from our perspective this is only visible in certain parts of the world - from South America, across northern Africa, and Europe - there's a link below that gives the time of the occultation - but the fun thing to do is to watch for a long period of time with binoculars or a telescope and see Saturn disappear behind the moon and then reappear again - in the UK that occurs around half 4 in the morning, again depending on your exact location and reappears again around 45 minutes later. If you want to check exact timings for your location I’d recommend using an app like Stellarium, I like the desktop version for things like this, and I’ll zoom in on Saturn and the moon and just click forward on the time to see what time Saturn will disappear and reappear. Timings for occultation of Saturn by the Moon - http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets/0821saturn.htm#shorts #astronomy #stargazing #nightsky
The closest KNOWN black holes to Earth (only three have ever held the title) Dr. Becky 2024-08-15 | AD - Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Save 40% off the Vantage plan through my link for unlimited access this month only. | Turns out there’s not many black holes that have held the title of “the closest black hole to Earth known”, just THREE have officially held the title. In this video we’re going to dive into the science history books to find out how these black holes were found and how close they actually are...My previous video on record breaking "most distant galaxy known" - youtube.com/watch?v=nkYeHYDneHUMy previous video on how we know there's a supermassive black hole in the centre of every galaxy - youtube.com/watch?v=QCv87K_y97w&t=1082sMy previous video on Oppenheimer and the maximum mass of a neutron star - youtube.com/watch?v=psi7u6Q6dRw&t=15sMy previous video on whether there could be a black hole in our Solar System with "planet 9" - youtube.com/watch?v=AplFPtHY09E&t=1143s Bowyer et al. (1964; 8 new X-ray sources spotted) - jstor.org/stable/1715673?origin=adsBraes & Miley (1971; radio source for Cygnus X-1) - nature.com/articles/232246a0Murdin & Webster (1971; visible star for Cygnus X-1 HD226868) - nature.com/articles/233110a0Webster & Murdin (1972; Cygnus X-1 could be a black hole) - nature.com/articles/235037a0Bolton (1972; Cygnus X-1 could be a black hole) - nature.com/articles/235271b0Shipman (1975; no other explanation fits for Cygnus X-1, it's a black hole) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1975ApL....16....9SMiller-Jones (2021; modern estimates for Cygnus X-1 black hole mass) - science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abb3363Hawking (1972; black holes in general relativity theory) - link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01877517Hawking & Penrose (1970; singularities are natural and inevitable) - jstor.org/stable/2416467?origin=adsBekenstein (1974; thermodynamics of black holes) - journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.9.3292Bardeen, Carter & Hawking (1973; thermodynamics of black holes) - link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01645742Hawking (1974; black hole "explosions" Hawking radiation) - nature.com/articles/248030a0van den Heuvel & De Loore (1973; Cygnus X-3 could be a black hole) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1973A%26A....25..387VKitamoto et al. (1984; 4U 1543-47 could be a black hole) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1984PASJ...36..799KElvis et al. (1975; X-ray source A0620-00 detected) - nature.com/articles/257656a0McClintock & Remillard (1986; A06020-00 is a black hole) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1986ApJ...308..110Mvan Grunsven et al. (2017; modern estimate of A0620-00 mass) - arxiv.org/pdf/1708.08209El Baldry et al. (2022; Gaia BH1 discovery) - arxiv.org/pdf/2209.06833El Baldry et al. (2023; Gaia BH2 discovery) - arxiv.org/pdf/2302.07880Gaia collaboration (2024; Gaia BH3 discovery) - arxiv.org/pdf/2404.1048600:00 - Introduction01:33 - AD | Ground News03:22 - Cygnus X-1, 197212:40 - A0620-00 V616 Monocerotis, 18614:14 - Gaia BH1, 202217:53 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Has JWST solved the crisis in cosmology? Or made it WORSE? #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-08-13 | It’s finally here! the research paper we have all been waiting for - JWST’s look at the crisis in cosmology, aka the Hubble Tension where we’re getting different answers for the expansion rate of the universe depending on what method we’re using. If you remember i did a video on this when they presents work on the conference circuit back in spring, but we didn’t have any details. Well now we do, this new paper from Freedman and collaborators appeared online today, although its still not gone through peer review, and it has essentially said that they’ve now used JWST instead of the hubble space telescope to do this, there’s no longer a problem, the values for the rate of expansion of the universe with these different methods don’t disagree anymore, at least not within the errors on the measurement. Question I still have is what changed between hubble and JWST data? So I’m going to dive into reading this research paper this week, absorb all the details, and report back in my next Night Sky News episode for August which is coming out next Thursday 22nd, so make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss out! #cosmology #JWST #astrophysics Freedman et al. (2024) - arxiv.org/abs/2408.06153 👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.com
The most ambitious astronomy project EVER | The Vera Rubin Observatory Dr. Becky 2024-08-09 | AD | Huge thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring today’s video. Go to kiwico.com/astrodrbecky and use code ASTRODRBECKY for 50% off your first month of monthly lines. | Move over JWST, move over Euclid, the eyes of the astronomy world are all moving to look at the Vera Rubin Observatory which is getting closer and closer to what’s known as “first light” in August 2024 - when after 13 years of construction in the Chilean desert, for the first time light will be collected by the 8.4m mirror and travel through the telescope’s optical system. Rubin is one of the most ambitious astronomy projects we’ve ever seen - yes its seen all the usual technological advancements that come with a new observatory - but Rubin stands out due to the sheer scale of what its going to attempt to do. You see, unlike other telescopes which astronomers apply to use to focus in one specific object that they’re really interested in, Rubin will complete a full survey of the entire sky every three nights - splitting the sky up into a mosaic and going back night after night to collect more light and build up a picture of what’s in each part of the sky so that it can record the things that have changed in the sky each night - from supernova, to asteroids, or burping black holes. All of this together means that Rubin will collect a HUGE amount of data, its estimated that it will detect 20 billion objects in the sky over its 10 year survey, and flag 10 million things that change in the sky each night. Over its 10-year survey, it will collect around 60 petabytes of data! So with all that data, Rubin is set to change the face of astronomy forever, as long as we’re prepared for that deluge of data...Help classify the shapes of galaxies in images from the Euclid Space Telescope to train an AI algorithm with Galaxy Zoo: galaxyzoo.orgMy previous video on all the evidence we have for dark matter - youtu.be/nbE8B7zggUgMy previous video on alternate theories of gravity that don't need dark matter - youtu.be/dtfEzDAlL5kMy previous video on how astrophysicists use AI - youtu.be/NnhxYKn4bEYMy previous video on the most distant galaxy known record breakers - youtu.be/NnhxYKn4bEYMy previous video on the Euclid Space Telescope - youtu.be/JFAB1MhYGyc00:00 Introduction02:47 AD | Kiwi Co04:18 Who was Vera Rubin and why is the telescope named after her?06:59 What are the new technologies that have been developed for the Rubin Observatory?08:41 What are the Rubin Observatory's main science goals?10:24 How does Rubin differ from the Euclid Space Telescope?13:13 BloopersMuthukrishna et al. (2022) - arxiv.org/pdf/2111.00036Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Mars + Jupiter Conjunction 15th August 2024 #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-08-09 | Mars and Jupiter will be around in the morning sky all month rising ever earlier as time marches on and also appearing to getting closer together from our perspective as each planet moves along its orbit. So that by early morning on Thursday 15th of August they’ve reached what’s known as conjunction, they’re closest approach on the sky - where they’ll be less than the width of the full moon away from each other - at their closest they’ll be about 0.3 degrees apart. about the width of your little finger at arms length, meaning they can both fit in the field of view of a typical amateur telescope. Now wherever you are in the world you should be able to see them getting closer together all throughout the month, but the closest approach happens on Wednesday 14th august at 16:52 GMT, so if in your time zone that’s early morning, so New Zealand and Polynesia you’ll see the exact time of closest approach, but the rest of us will still see them very close indeed - let's hope for clear skies! #astronomy #stargazing
How ASTROPHYSICISTS use ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Dr. Becky 2024-08-01 | AD - Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video! The first 500 people to use my link will get a 1-month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/drbecky07241 | AI, or artificial intelligence, feels like a buzz word you just can’t escape from these days. It is everywhere. And astrophysics is no exception with a steady increase in the number of research papers published either using or mentioning AI tools such as machine learning and deep learning. So in this video let's chat about what actually is AI - what can it do, what can it not do, because there’s a lot of misinformation out there, before we then chat about 4 ways that us astrophysicists use AI: i) classification of data, ii) finding weird things (anomaly detection), iii) inference of data, and iv) emulation of simulations. This is by no means an exhaustive list, I’m sure many of my colleagues are also using AI in other ways for the research, not to mention using well known tools like GitHub’s copilot to help them write code, or chatGPT to help them with inspiration when trying to summarise research papers or grant proposals into abstracts. AI has perhaps changed the way we work as astrophysicists, but has not yet changed astrophysics itself. The key word there though being *yet*, because with the pace of advancement of AI that we’re seeing, who knows what the next decade could bring!Classify the shapes of galaxies in images from the brand new Euclid telescope to help train an AI deep learning algorithm - galaxyzoo.orgCheck out Katie Bouman's TED talk explaining how the black hole image is made by the Event Horizon Telescope team: youtube.com/watch?v=BIvezCVcsYsSmith & Geach (2023) - arxiv.org/pdf/2211.03796Kembhavi & Pattnaik (2022) - link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12036-022-09871-2Fotopoulou (2024) - arxiv.org/pdf/2406.17316Huppenkothen et al. (2023) - arxiv.org/pdf/2310.12528Walmsley et al. (2020) - arxiv.org/pdf/1905.07424Walmsley et al. (2023) - joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05312Bowles et al. (2021) - arxiv.org/pdf/2012.01248Huertas-Company et al. (2023) - arxiv.org/pdf/2305.02478Robertson et al. (2023) - arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11456Yu et al. (2019) - arxiv.org/pdf/1904.02726Osborn et al. (2020) - arxiv.org/pdf/1902.08544Muthukrishna et al. (2019) - arxiv.org/pdf/1902.08544Sooknunan et al. (2021) - arxiv.org/pdf/1811.08446Cheng et al. (2021) - arxiv.org/pdf/2009.11932Tohill et al. (2024) - arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17225Muthukrishna et al. (2022) - arxiv.org/pdf/2111.00036Perez-Carrasco et al. (2023) - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace0c1Mohale & Lochner (2024) -arxiv.org/pdf/2311.14157Angeloudi et al. (2024) - arxiv.org/pdf/2407.00166Rose et al. (2024) - arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00766Conceição et al. (2024) - arxiv.org/pdf/2304.0609900:00 - Introduction01:33 - What is AI? Machine learning vs deep learning05:46 - AD - Skillshare07:17 - (i) Classification of data11:21 - (ii) Anomaly detection13:29 - (iii) Inference of data15:07 - (iv) Emulation of simulations17:40 - The impact of AI on astrophysics19:19 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Astrophysicists need YOUR HELP classifying galaxies imaged by the Euclid Space Telescope #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-08-01 | Classify galaxies on Galaxy Zoo: Euclid - galaxyzoo.orgRead the Galaxy Zoo blog announcing the project here - blog.galaxyzoo.org/2024/08/01/announcing-the-galaxy-zoo-euclid-projectThe new Galaxy Zoo: Euclid project has just launched! If you’re not familiar with galaxy zoo it’s a website where us astronomers ask the public for help classifying the shapes of galaxies in huge datasets taken by survey telescopes. My PhD was made possible thanks to people classifying on galaxy zoo, and I’ve been part of the science team for over 10 years now, so I’m so excited that I get to announce this for you all: that images from the recently launched Euclid space telescope are now up on the site ready to be classified - this data hasn’t been released publicly yet so you will be the very first people to ever see these images from Euclid, and not only that be the very first humans in the Universe to see these galaxies. If you want to know more about Euclid I’ve made a whole video about it before, but essentially it’s goal is to produce images like the Hubble Ultra Deep field but for 2/3 of the entire night sky - essentially the bits where our own Milky Way galaxy isn’t in the way. That’s a lot of data, and labelling that is very difficult. So at Galaxy Zoo, we do have an AI deep learning algorithm called ZooBot sifting through the images first, labelling the easy ones that we already have a lot of examples of from previous surveys, and then the ones the AI is not confident about it shows to users on Galaxy Zoo to get their classifications which help teach the algorithm even more. So this is machines and humans working together in the most efficient way. Your classifications will help us on the Galaxy Zoo and Euclid science teams to answer questions like how has the shape of galaxies changed over time, what are the processes that transform the shape of galaxies, how does the balance of normal to dark matter affect the shape, and so much more. We’ve written a blog post over on the Galaxy Zoo website if you’d like to know more about the project and the link to the Galaxy Zoo: Euclid website is in the video description below - happy classifying!
Delays to the Europa Clipper launch to Jupiters icy (potentially habitable) moon? NSN July 24 BONUS Dr. Becky 2024-07-26 | There’s been a lot of doubt cast this month about NASA’s Europa Clipper mission which is planned for a launch in October on one of SpaceX’s falcon heavy rockets. Europa clipper is set to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa with a number of fly-bys. And what’s so special about Europa? Well the Galileo mission in the early 2000s found evidence that there could be a liquid ocean under Europa’s icy crust layer. So the idea is Europa Clipper will investigate its habitability and study the surface to try and find a suitable place for the Europa lander to touch down which is set to launch a few years later in 2027. Now as we get closer to the launch date, things are starting to get a bit nail biter because this month NASA announced that the team’s engineers have been investigating a problem with the transistors on board the spacecraft - these are essentially switches that can control the flow of electricity on the craft - and they found that they were failing at lower radiation doses than they were rated for. That’s a big deal because the region around Jupiter’s is the most radiation intense in the solar system because of Jupiter’s strong magnetic field that’s 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s, which traps all the high energy particles from the Sun. Europa clipper will have to exist in that environment and it can’t if the transistors fail. So the team at NASA are working with the manufacturers to work out if all of the transistors are affected and to what degree. There’s a report due at the end of July so let’s hope it’s good news because that October launch window for Europa clipper is only 21 days. SO we can only afford a 3 week delay 🤞#spaceexploration #nasa #space #jupiter #shorts 👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.com
The nearest most massive black hole found! AND it’s in the mass gap | Night Sky News July 2024 Dr. Becky 2024-07-25 | AD - FlexiSpot July Sale - Up to 50% off Sale - bit.ly/3VPeftiAD - FlexiSpot Standing Desk E7 PRO - bit.ly/3XVYXFXIn this month’s Night Sky News episode we’re chatting about how to spot the conjunction of Mars & Jupiter, the Moon occult Saturn, and the Pleiades meteor shower. Plus in space news we’ll be chatting about the intermediate mass black hole that’s been found in our galaxy, right in the mass gap where we’ve never found a black hole of that mass before, ESA’s recent Ariane 6 launch, JWST’s look at the famous Penguin galaxy, plus the asteroid Chiron turning into a comet.The Galaxy Zoo: Euclid project needs your help classifying the shapes of galaxies - galaxyzoo.orgTimings for occultation of Saturn by the Moon - http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets/0821saturn.htmLast week’s video on all the record holders of the title “most distant galaxy” - youtube.com/watch?v=nkYeHYDneHUMy previous video on the Euclid Space Telescope - youtube.com/watch?v=JFAB1MhYGycMy previous Night Sky News video with an intermediate mass black hole discovery - youtube.com/watch?v=rDWLakJW5i8Dobson et al. (2024; Chiron brightening) - arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14410Pinilla-Alonso et al. (2024; JWST observes Chiron) - arxiv.org/pdf/2407.07761Häberle et al. (2024; intermediate black hole mass candidate in omega centauri) - arxiv.org/pdf/2405.06015Walmsley et al. (2023; ZooBot AI algorithm) - joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.0531200:00 Intro01:02 Jupiter + Mars + Moon end of July02:08 Jupiter + Mars Conjunction mid-August03:21 How to watch the Perseids Meteor Shower05:51 Saturn x Moon Occultation07:21 Ariane 6 inaugural launch09:10 JUICE Earth fly-by 11:31 Chiron turns into a comet?14:16 JWST observes the Penguin Galaxy 16:22 New candidate intermediate mass black hole found24:03 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV Video edited by Jonny Hyman---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Every most distant galaxy known from 1925-2024 | RECORD BREAKERS Dr. Becky 2024-07-18 | AD | To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/DrBecky and you'll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. | The current most distant galaxy known is JADES-GS-z14-0, which was found in a JWST image. But there’s a whole long list of galaxies that have come before it from1925 onwards. In this video we’re going through the science history of which galaxies once held the title of "the most distant galaxy known". 00:00 - Introduction01:47 - AD | Brilliant03:14 - 1925 Andromeda04:46 - 1929 NGC 761907:38 - 1929 NGC 486007:47 - 1930 BGC Ursa Major 07:55 - 1931 BCG Leo08:05 - 1936 BCG Böotes Cluster08:41 - 1956 BCG Hydra cluster09:26 - 1960 3C 29510:30 - 1964 3C 14711:21 - 1965 3C 912:08 - 1973 OH 47112:24 - 1987 Q0051-27912:37 - 1991 PC1247+340613:49 - 1997 CL1358+6214:51 - 1998 RD115:15 - 1998 HDF 4-473.015:57 - 1999 SSA22-HCM116:08 - 2000 SDSSp J104433.04–012502.216:40 - 2001 SDSSp J103027.10+052455.016:54 - 2002 HCM 6A17:39 - 2003 SDF J132418.3+27145517:46 - 2005 SDF J132522.3 + 27352017:52 - 2006 IOK-118:13 - 2009 GRB 090423 host19:15 - 2015 EGSY8p719:39 - 2016 GN-z1122:47 - 2023 JADES-GS-z1323:49 - 2024 JADES-GS-z14-025:01 - BloopersHubble (1925; M31) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1925PA.....33..252HHubble (1929; distance correlated velocity) - pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.15.3.168Humason (1929; NGC 7619) - pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.15.3.167Humason & Pease (1929; NGC 4860) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1929PASP...41..244.Humason (1930; BCG of Ursa Major) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1930ApJ....71..351HHumason (1931; BCG in Leo) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1931ApJ....74...35HHumason (1936; BCG in Böotes) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1936ApJ....83...10HHumason, Mayall & Sandage (1956; BCG Hydra cluster) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1956AJ.....61...97HMinkowski (1960; 3C 295) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1960ApJ...132..908MSchmidt & Matthews (1964; 3C 147) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1964ApJ...139..781SCarswell & Strittmatter (1973; OH471) - nature.com/articles/242394a0Warren et al. (1987; Q0051 – 279) - nature.com/articles/330453a0Schneider, Schmidt & Gunn (1991; PC1247+3406) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1991AJ....102..837SFrank et al. (1997; CL1358+62 lensed galaxy) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9704090Dey et al. (1998; RD1) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9803137Weymann et al. (1998; HDF 4–473.0) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9807208Hu, McMahon & Cowie (1999; SSA22-HCM1) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9907079Fan et al. (2000; SDSSp J104433.04–012502.2) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0005414Fan et al. (2001; SDSSp J103027.10+052455.0) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0108063Hu et al. (2022; HCM 6A) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0203091Kodaira et al. (2003; SDF J132418.3+271455) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0301096Taniguchi et al. (2005; SDF J132522.3 + 273520) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0407542Eye et al. (2006; IOK-1) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0609393Tanvir et al. (2009; GRB 090423 host) - arxiv.org/pdf/0906.1577 Robertson et al. (2015; reddest galaxies in CANDELS) - arxiv.org/pdf/1506.00854Zitrin et al. (2015; EGSY8p7) - arxiv.org/pdf/1507.02679Oesch et al. (2016; GN-z11) - arxiv.org/pdf/1603.00461Jiang et al. (2021; GN-z11) - arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06936Bunker et al. (2023; GN-z11) -arxiv.org/pdf/2302.07256Yan et al. (2023; z~15-20 galaxy candidates with JWST) - arxiv.org/pdf/2207.11558Robertsoni et al. (2023; JADES reddest galaxies) - arxiv.org/pdf/2212.04480Curtis-Lake et al. (2023; JADES-GS-z13) - arxiv.org/pdf/2212.04568Carniani et al. (2024; JADES-GS-z14-0) - arxiv.org/pdf/2405.18485Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
The search for DARK MATTER on JUPITER Dr. Becky 2024-07-11 | AD - Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Save 40% off the Vantage plan through my link for unlimited access this month only. | Although all our observations of the Universe point towards dark matter outnumbering normalmatter 5 to 1, we still don’t know what it’s made of because we haven’t *directly* detected it. BUT what if we could use Jupiter todetect dark matter? That’s what this paper published by Blanco & Leane this month tried to do by detecting trihydrogen cation, or H3+ and it definitely set some heads turning...Blanco & Leane (2024; searching for dark matter on Jupiter) - arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06758Stallard et al. (2015; Cassini H3+ detections on Jupiter) - agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JA02109700:00 - Introduction02:08 - Ground News AD03:54 - What are trihydrogen cations H3+? 05:54 - What have they’ve got to do with Jupiter and dark matter? 07:45 - How much H3+ Blanco & Leane found on Jupiter 10:13 - What this tells us about the nature of dark matter12:32 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Astrophysicist reacts to BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Dr. Becky 2024-07-04 | AD | Go to piavpn.com/Becky to get 83% off Private Internet Access with 4 months free! | In this episode of Astrophysicist reacts we're watching Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 1 "33" to pick out the science from the fiction in this sci-fi show. We're chatting about faster than light speed travel, special relativity including time dilation and length contraction, and Newton's third law of motion. You can watch Battlestar Galactica for free on iPlayer if you're in the UK: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08kz1gcOr on Amazon Prime: amazon.co.uk/Battlestar-Galactica-Season-1/dp/B00ET0IIM4/ref=nav_custrec_signin?workflowType=Commerce-TVOD&I also needed @DoctorMike for this episode to chat about how long humans can go without sleep00:00 - Introduction00:45 - Faster than light speed travel03:03 - How long can humans go without sleep?04:29 - PIA VPN | AD06:30 - Einstein and time dilation - "every 33 minutes"08:39 - FTL and the uncertainties on navigation systems11:32 - Thrusters and Newton's third law of motion12:18 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
JWST breaks most distant galaxy record AGAIN | Night Sky News June 2024 Dr. Becky 2024-06-27 | AD - Head to squarespace.com/drbecky to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DRBECKY. | In this episode of Night Sky News for June 2024 we’re chatting about how to spot the Milky Way, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn in the sky this month, how on 5th July Earth reaches aphelion (its furthest distance from the Sun in its orbit), the issues with Boeing's Starliner, the solar storm and aurora on Mars that the Curiosity Rover spotted, how the Hubble Space Telescope is back up and running but only with one gyroscope now operating, and a galaxy spotted by JWST which could be the most distant galaxy ever found with the light taking 13.4 billion years to get to us.My video on why the southern hemisphere has the best view of the Milky Way - youtu.be/Ieq_z81JpL8My video with astrophotography tips - youtu.be/ToN15U6dy1QMy video on the slowest pulsar ever found - youtu.be/6EHl0GRBSbsMy video on whether SpaceX can save the Hubble Space Telescope - youtu.be/UraYUQH_z68Last month's Night Sky News video - youtu.be/aUCBDeirX-ACaleb et al. (2024; discovery of possible slowest pulsar ASKAP J1935+2148) - nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02277-wCarniani et al. (2024; JWST's most distant galaxy - NOT PEER REVIEWED) - arxiv.org/pdf/2405.1848500:00 Introduction01:04 Spotting the Milky Way02:44 Jupiter, Mars & Saturn before sunrise 04:31 Aphelion on July 5 07:30 Slowest Pulsar Ever Seen 08:05 Starliner's Woes 09:50 Hubble now operating with one gyroscope13:42 Curiosity and MAVEN record solar storms hitting Mars 16:37 JWST spots most distant galaxy ever found22:19 BloopsVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV Video edited by Jonny Hyman---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Is this the SLOWEST pulsar ever found?! Or something else...? Dr. Becky 2024-06-20 | AD - Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access this month only. | Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe that we can see - the only thing you can get more extreme is a black hole. And when we find neutron stars, they tend to be spinning faster than once a second! Which is why this month when a paper by Caleb and collaborators was published reporting on the discovery of a possible neutron star with pulses of radio light detected once every 54 minutes, the entire astronomy community, went, wait? what? Is it really a pulsar? Spinning that slowly? Or is it something else? Whatever this thing is, it’s WEIRD, and not what we expect to find at all.Caleb et al. (2024; discovery of ASKAP J1935+2148) - nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02277-wCaleb et al. (2022; discovery of 76 second period pulsar) - arxiv.org/pdf/2206.01346March et al. (2016; discovery of AR Scorpi white dwarf pulsar) - arxiv.org/pdf/1607.0826500:00 - Introduction01:49 - Ground News03:40 - How Caleb and collabs found this object known as ASKAP J1935+214806:01 - What are its properties including its slow spin07:57 - What it could be? neutron star, white dwarf or something else? 11:35 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---📚 "The Year In Space" celebrating all things space in 2022 from me and the rest of the Supermassive Podcast team: geni.us/jNcrw ---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
The Roman Space Telescope - NASAs next generation observatory Dr. Becky 2024-06-13 | If you’re struggling, consider therapy with BetterHelp #ad. Click betterhelp.com/drbecky for a 10% discount on your first month of therapy with a credentialed professional specific to your needs. | NASA’s next great observatory that’s set to launch is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (which used to be known as WFIRST). The Roman Space Telescope is the successor to Hubble with a similar wavelength range and the same size telescope mirror. But Roman has been designed to look at a much bigger region of sky at once; its field of view is 100 times bigger than Hubble’s! Roman is set to launch in 2026, so it’s not now that we have to wait now. So in this video let’s chat about 1) who Nancy Grace Roman was and why the telescope is named after her, 2) Roman’s main science goals are and what it will study, and 3) how it differ’s from ESA’s euclid space telescope which was launched last year.Find out more about the Roman Space Telescope here: roman.gsfc.nasa.govRoman (1950) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1950ApJ...112..554R00:00 - Introduction03:51 - Who was Nancy Grace Roman?05:31 - What are Roman's main science goals?09:52 - How do Roman and Euclid differ?11:27 - Outro11:47 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
K2-18b: did JWST really find evidence of life on this exoplanet? Dr. Becky 2024-06-06 | AD | To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/DrBecky and you'll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. | Back in 2023, we saw the first ever claim that JWST had discovered a possible signature of life in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, a planet orbiting another star in our galaxy the Milky Way. But the evidence for the claim that dimethyl sulphide exists in K2-18b’s atmosphere was weak. Now, in the past few months of 2024, we’ve had two new papers analysing the data from K2-18b which both claim there are other models that can explain K2-18b just as well, with the same level of statistical backing. So what is going on here? So let's dive into what’s going on so you can all make up your own mind.Madhusudhan et al. (2023; hycean world with DMS evidence) - arxiv.org/pdf/2309.05566.pdfShorttle et al. (2024; hydrogen atmosphere with magma ocean) - arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05864Wogan et al. (2024; mini-Neptune) - arxiv.org/pdf/2401.11082Hu et al. (2021; prediction of the molecules present in a hycean world atmosphere) - arxiv.org/pdf/2108.04745.pdfBenneke et al. (2019; water vapour in K2-18b's atmosphere) - arxiv.org/pdf/1909.04642.pdfCloutier et al. (2019; K2-18b mass) - arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04731Foreman-Mackey et al. (2015; K2-18b discovered in K2 data) - arxiv.org/pdf/1502.04715Seager et al. (2013; biosignatures in hydrogen atmospheres) - arxiv.org/pdf/1309.6016.pdfJWST proposal 2722 - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/2722.pdfJWST proposal 2372 - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/2372.pdf00:00 - Introduction02:45 - What do we know about K2-18b so far?05:21 - Madhusudhan et al. (2023) - K2-18b is a hydrogen atmosphere with a liquid water ocean with dimethyl sulphide 09:33 - Shorttle et al. (2024) - K2-18b has hydrogen atmosphere with a magma ocean 11:05 - Wogan et al. (2024) - K2-18b is just a mini-Neptune 13:19 - What data do we need to figure this out?16:37 - BloopersMy previous video on K2-18b: youtube.com/watch?v=F360SGAlI8YMy previous video on the markers for life JWST is looking for: youtube.com/watch?v=I1soYYbHiCgVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---📚 "The Year In Space" celebrating all things space in 2022 from me and the rest of the Supermassive Podcast team: geni.us/jNcrw ---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
The first evidence for PLUNGING REGIONS around black holes (Einstein was right!) ft. Dr Andy Mummery Dr. Becky 2024-05-30 | If you’re struggling, consider therapy with BetterHelp #ad. Click betterhelp.com/drbecky for a 10% discount on your first month of therapy with a credentialed professional specific to your needs. | In this video we're chatting about the new research paper claiming to have observed the "plunging regions" inside the innermost stable circular orbit around a black hole. Using an X-ray spectrum of the black hole MAXI J1820+070 Mummery and collaborators were able to prove that the region around a black hole existed as Einstein predicted in his theory of General Relativity. Even more exciting still, is that this could be a new method for measuring the spin of a black hole!Mummery et al. (2024; first evidence for plunging reasons around black holes - Einstein was right!) - arxiv.org/pdf/2405.09175Reynolds (2021; review on how we measure black hole spin observationally) - arxiv.org/pdf/2011.0894800:00 - Introduction03:40 - What is the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) around a black hole?06:41 - How does the ISCO relate to the black hole's spin?10:04 - How Mummery and collaborators studied the "plunging region" inside the ISCO using X-ray observations of MAXI J1820+07014:40 - What this study tells us about black hole spin16:27 - Interview with Dr. Andy Mummery 20:27 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
JWST spots most distant MERGER of two supermassive black holes | Night Sky News May 2024 Dr. Becky 2024-05-23 | AD - Head to squarespace.com/drbecky to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DRBECKY. | This month we’re chatting about the solar storm that caused the spectacular aurora (northern & southern lights) that so many of us saw far from the poles, the newly coated mirror of the Vera Rubin Observatory, the brand new images we’ve got from the Euclid space telescope, and how JWST has spotted the most distant merging supermassive black holes ever seen. NASA aurora forecast - swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecastNASA space weather prediction centre - swpc.noaa.govÜbler et al. (2024; most distant supermassive black holes) - arxiv.org/pdf/2312.03589More on the Vera Rubin Observatory - rubinobservatory.orgMore on the Euclid Space Telescope - https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid@EuropeanSpaceAgency Euclid Early Release Observations press release (with images and links to scientific papers released 23/5/24) - euclid-ec.org/first-early-release-observation-science-and-reference-paper-releaseMy previous video on the final parsec problem - youtube.com/watch?v=6tXIoViA_0g00:00 Intro00:58 Solstice & Summer Triangle02:02 Planets hiding behind the sun03:33 Noctilucent clouds06:10 Aurora caused by severe solar storm!16:41 Vera Rubin Observatory primary mirror coating18:37 Euclid releases new deep-field views of galaxies22:59 JWST black hole merger in early Universe!Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV Video edited by Jonny Hyman---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Mark Clampin, Director of Astrophysics Division NASA - Full interview, Habitable Worlds Observatory Dr. Becky 2024-05-21 | The full unedited version of my interview with Mark Clampin, the Director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA. We chatted about the Habitable Worlds Observatory, including how it will be different to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and how the plan is to use it to take a direct images of Earth-like exoplanets and study their atmospheres for biosignatures. I also couldn't help but ask Mark about his career path and how he became NASA's Director of Astrophysics. Last week's video on the Habitable Worlds Observatory - youtube.com/watch?v=z2JIkAPcdnUMore on Mark Clampin - science.nasa.gov/people/dr-mark-clampinFollow Mark on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/mark-clampin-7331b73100:00 - Introduction00:32 - Introducing Mark Clampin00:37 - What does the head of Astrophysics at NASA do?01:52 - How long has Mark been in this job?04:12 - Why was the Habitable Worlds Observatory project chosen? NASA's decision making process. 07:13 - What will the Habitable Worlds Observatory give us that we've never had before?10:10 - Is the biggest leap from the telescope or coronagraph technology?10:46 - What is Mark's science research focus?11:47 - Mark's career path - how do you become head of astrophysics at NASA?!15:45 - What's going to be the biggest chance in how we do astronomy/astrophysics in the next few decades?17:29 - OutroVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV & iPhone 13 Pro---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---📚 "The Year In Space" celebrating all things space in 2022 from me and the rest of the Supermassive Podcast team: geni.us/jNcrw ---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Can we take a picture of an Earth-like planet?! | Habitable Worlds Observatory 2040s Dr. Becky 2024-05-16 | AD | To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/drbecky and you'll get 20% off Brilliant's annual premium subscription. | The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a space based telescope that plans to directly image earth-like planets around sun-like stars, due to launch in the 2040s. It’s a space telescope that’s set to be the same size as JWST but instead of observing in the infrared, it detects visible and ultraviolet light. It’ll sit at the stable point Lagrange point 2, just like JWST, around 1.5 million km away from Earth AND the plan is for it to be serviced like the Hubble Space Telescope was by astronauts, but this time by robots. I chatted to Mark Clampin, the Director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA about the plans for this project. But don’t get too excited though because it’s not set to launch until the 2040s, so how come we’re already talking about it now?My previous video on JWST's search for biosignatures - youtube.com/watch?v=I1soYYbHiCg1972 decadal survey (Hubble Space Telescope recommendation) - nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13231/astronomy-and-astrophysics-for-the-1970s-volume-1-report-of1982 decadal survey (Chandra X-ray Telescope recommendation) - nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/549/astronomy-and-astrophysics-for-the-1980s-volume-1-report-of1991 decadal survey (Spitzer Space Telescope recommendation) - nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1634/the-decade-of-discovery-in-astronomy-and-astrophysics2001 decadal survey (James Webb Space Telescope recommendation) - nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9839/astronomy-and-astrophysics-in-the-new-millennium2010 decadal survey (Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recommendation) - nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12951/new-worlds-new-horizons-in-astronomy-and-astrophysics2023 decadal survey (Habitable Worlds Observatory recommendation) - nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26141/pathways-to-discovery-in-astronomy-and-astrophysics-for-the-2020s00:00 - What is the Habitable Worlds Observatory?01:37 - Astrophysics decadal survey recommendations - Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, JWST, Roman, HWO04:55 - How is HWO different to JWST? Transits vs direct imaging07:06 - The magic of integral field units09:20 - Involvement of ESA and the UK Space Agency10:49 - Interview with Mark Clampin, Director of Astrophysics Division, NASA16:39 - Brilliant 18:12 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---📚 "The Year In Space" celebrating all things space in 2022 from me and the rest of the Supermassive Podcast team: geni.us/jNcrw ---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Northern lights over OXFORD - 11th May 2024 #shorts #aurora Dr. Becky 2024-05-11 | A giant solar storm caused the northern lights to be visible as far south as Oxford on the 10th May 2024 🤯😍 here’s a quick timelapse of what I saw! The aurora are due to high energy particles buried up by the Sun in the solar storm hitting molecules in our atmosphere and causing them to glow. The greens are from Oxygen low down in the atmosphere, the pinks from Oxygen high up in the atmosphere, and the purples from Nitrogen. You could just about see the colours with your eyes alone but the camera picked it out even more #aurora #northernlights #geomagneticstorm #oxford #uk #astronomy #nightsky #womeninstem #timelapse
How do we know how much dark matter there is in the Universe? Dr. Becky 2024-05-09 | AD - Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access this month only. | I often get asked how do we know dark matter exists? Which is why I've made a video on all the observational evidence we have before (linked below)! But occasionally I'll get asked how do we know *how much* dark matter there is, which is a really fun question. There's many different ways we can calculate this, including the ratio between normal (baryonic) and dark matter, but in this video I just wanted to highlight three different ways astrophysicists calculate this. Here's my previous video on all the evidence we have for dark matter - youtu.be/nbE8B7zggUg?t=104My previous video on whether dark matter could be made of black holes - youtube.com/watch?v=d0wV5frSb6sMy previous video on whether black holes contain dark matter - youtube.com/watch?v=9Qis5VDOd18My previous video on why galaxies merge if the universe is expanding - youtube.com/watch?v=2OjNokItg3EAllen, Evrard & Mantz (2011; review on galaxy clusters observations) - arxiv.org/pdf/1103.4829Zwicky (1933; first virial theorem paper in German) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1933AcHPh...6..110ZZwicky (1937; virial theorem applied to the Coma cluster) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1937ApJ....86..217ZAlpher, Bethe, & Gamow (1948; big bang nucleosynthesis; behind paywall) - journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.73.803Alpher & Herman (1950; more BBN work; behind paywall) - journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.22.153Planck collaboration (2015; cosmological parameter results for our best model of the Universe) - arxiv.org/pdf/1502.0158900:00 Introduction02:04 Ground News AD03:54 Method 1 - Galaxy Clusters and the virial theorem08:49 Method 2 - Big Bang Nucleosynthesis11:39 Method 3 - Cosmic Microwave Background 14:35 Outro15:24 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---📚 "The Year In Space" celebrating all things space in 2022 from me and the rest of the Supermassive Podcast team: geni.us/jNcrw ---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
The Axis of Evil in the cosmic microwave background | Unsolved Mystery Dr. Becky 2024-05-03 | AD | Enjoy 10% OFF on all Hoverpens and free shipping to most countries with code DrBecky:North America & other countries: bit.ly/drbecky_noviumUK & Europe: bit.ly/drbecky_noviumeuThere's a strange, unexplained feature of the Cosmic Microwave Background which seems to be aligned with the Solar System, and we don't why. Is it real or just a coincidence? And if it is real, does that mean we're missing something from our best cosmological model of the Universe? #cosmology #astrophysics Bennett et al. (2003; announce WMAP maps and results) - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/377253/pdfEriksen et al. (2004; anisotropies in quadrupole and octupole) - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/382267/pdfLand & Magueijo (2005; dub “axis of evil”) - journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.071301For a recent review of the tensions and anomalies in cosmology and the Cosmic Microwave Background see: - arxiv.org/pdf/2203.06142.pdf (p.99 for the axis of evil) 00:00 - Introduction02:49 - What is the cosmic microwave background?05:13 - What are "multipoles" in the CMB?07:34 - What is the "axis of evil"?08:42 - Possible explanations - it's not real 11:00 - Possible explanations - it is real 13:38 - BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Renovating my new office PART 4 - furniture FINALLY! #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-04-30 | This week I got some new bookshelves and a sofa bed delivered for my office - this should provide a nice back drop for my videos and precious sound absorption in this very echo-y room. Shelves are from @TikamoonCoUk and sofa bed is from @johnlewisretail - all were purchased, this is not a paid promotion.
Does the expansion rate of the Universe CHANGE over time?! | DESI 1 year results Dr. Becky 2024-04-25 | AD - Head to squarespace.com/drbecky to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DRBECKY. | The first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey has been released this month along with a few dozen scientific research papers delving into the data. The result that caught my eye was their investigation of the change in the expansion rate of the Universe with time using a "standard ruler" technique using Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations. The first year of data seems to be showing some disagreement with our best model of the Universe? But will those results hold with the next 4 years of observations...?DESI 1st year public release: desi.lbl.gov/2024/04/04/desi-y1-results-april-4-guidePapers that I showed plots from in this video:DESI collaboration III (2024): arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03000DESI collaboration IV (2024): arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03001DESI collaboration VI (2024): arxiv.org/pdf/2404.0300200:00 Introduction02:20 Chapter outline04:03 What are Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO)?06:30 What is a "standard ruler"? And how they allow you to calculate the expansion rate of the Universe08:04 What the DESI collaboration found08:46 Do their results agree with our best model of the Universe?11:26 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV Video edited by Jonny Hyman---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
“Half moonshine, full eclipse” - Taylor Swift uses Earthshine as a metaphor for celebrity #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-04-22 | In the lyrics "half moonshine, full eclipse" from Clara Bow, is Taylor Swift referring to Earthshine on the Moon? Is this a really clever metaphor for celebrity and parasocial relationships? I've lost count on how many times I've listened to The Tortured Poets Department now, but I am absolutely loving it. And crying. And somehow still being very productive at work. It's an art. #ttpd #taylorswift #astronomy 👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.com
T Coronae Borealis is about to go nova! Heres why and how to spot it | Night Sky News April 2024 Dr. Becky 2024-04-18 | If you’re struggling, consider therapy with BetterHelp #ad. Click betterhelp.com/drbecky for a 10% discount on your first month of therapy with a credentialed professional specific to your needs. | In this month we're having fun with astrophysics April Fool's papers, talking about the new supermassive black hole image from the Event Horizon Telescope showing the polarised light, and talking about why T Coronae Borealis is about to go nova and how to spot it when it does!Astronomers without borders eclipse glasses donation: astronomerswithoutborders.org/programs/solar-glasses-distributionEclipse glasses USA donation program: eclipse23.comAnnular eclipse map 2nd October 2025: timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2024-october-2AAVSO announcement of T Coronae Borealis pre-eruption dip: aavso.org/news/t-crb-pre-eruption-dipJWST proposal 4607 to observe T CrB nova: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/4607.pdfSeminar by Dr Brad Schaefer from LSU on T CrB and observations you can do to help: youtube.com/watch?v=1Zfg67Q-szUSave Chandra campaign: savechandra.org/actPopinchalk et al. (2024; which species has seen the most total solar eclipses) - arxiv.org/pdf/2403.20175.pdfWalker et al. (2024; multi-wavelength astrology) - arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19749.pdfGammal et al. (2024; solving the crisis in cosmology by varying the value of pi) - arxiv.org/pdf/2403.20219.pdfWilkins, Newman & Roper (2024; FOOD redshift epoch system) - arxiv.org/pdf/2403.20144.pdfEvent Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2024a; polarisation of the ring) - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df0/pdfEvent Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2024b; physical interpretation) - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df1/pdfMy previous video explaining the M87* black hole image - youtube.com/watch?v=28PEgYQ1O0QMy previous video explaining the M87* polarised black hole image - youtube.com/watch?v=L47NV190q5QMy previous video explaining the Sag A* Milky Way black hole image - youtube.com/watch?v=BtnFwNKEmyY00:00 Intro00:50 The Eclipse! 01:55 Lyrids, meh 02:50 Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower 04:34 Losing Jupiter 05:32 Mars + Saturn 05:59 Toenail Moon + Mars + Saturn! 08:09 New star in the Night Sky (T Corona Borealis) 16:06 Save Chandra! 18:09 April Fools Astrophysics Papers 21:14 Black Hole Croissant - EHT sees Sag A* in polarised light 26:43 Conclusion 27:01 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV Video edited by Jonny Hyman---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
The coolest JWST plot I’ve ever seen #shorts #astrophysics #jwst Dr. Becky 2024-04-15 | This is the coolest JWST plot I’ve seen so far! It shows redshift in action plotting all the spectrum in the GOODS field taken with NIRSpec. It’s from this research paper by D’Eugenio et al, (2024): arxiv.org/abs/2404.06531#astronomy #spectra #nasawebb
Has JWST SOLVED the crisis in cosmology?! Dr. Becky 2024-04-11 | AD - Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed on Space and Science News. Subscribe through my link to get 40% off the Vantage plan for unlimited access this month only | Last weekend the lead researcher of a group using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to calculate the current rate of expansion of the Universe (aka the Hubble constant, H0) presented their results for the first time at an American Physical Society meeting. What they announced was not at all what everyone was expecting... DISCLAIMER: None of this work is published yet. It has not been peer reviewed. Take everything with a large pinch of scientific salt. My previous videos on the "crisis in cosmology" - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUf5TRqYoMYxEwjT6JIDW4ZnMy video from earlier this year on the JWST result showing that overcrowding wasn't the problem - youtu.be/3NeKR7bqolY?t=1331APS meeting schedule with Wendy Freedman’s talk - meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR24/Session/S01.2 Hu & Wang (2023; list of new physics hypothesis beyond best model of the universe) - arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05709.pdf Riess et al. (2024; hubble tension not due to crowding problem) - arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04773.pdf DESI collaboration (2024; H(z) and H0 measurements) - arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03002.pdf Lee et al. (2023; JAGB stars as standard candles) - arxiv.org/pdf/2305.02453.pdfBellazzini et al. (2004; TRBG stars as standard candles) - arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0404572.pdfPlanck collaboration (2018; latest best model of the Universe parameters) - arxiv.org/pdf/1807.06209.pdf Royal Society meeting with Wendy Freedman talk - royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2024/04/cosmological-model 00:00 Introduction03:17 AD Ground News04:54 What is the Hubble Tension (aka the "crisis in cosmology")?07:40 The possible explanations/solutions for the Hubble tension?14:22 What Freedman et al. are claiming to have found with JWST18:32 How does this compare to previous work on this with JWST?20:30 What now? Is the “crisis in cosmology” really over? 22:57 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---📚 "The Year In Space" celebrating all things space in 2022 from me and the rest of the Supermassive Podcast team: geni.us/jNcrw ---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Wait, has JWST SOLVED the crisis in cosmology?! #shorts #astronomy #science Dr. Becky 2024-04-08 | At a meeting of the American Physical Society last Saturday there was a *very* interesting talk from Wendy Freedman - the lead researcher of a group using JWST to investigate the "crisis in cosmology" aka the Hubble Tension. This is one of the biggest problems in modern astrophysics, where our two main methods for calculating the expansion rate of the Universe don't agree. But now, this collaboration are claiming that with their JWST data, the two values DO agree and they've solved the Hubble Tension. That's despite the fact that we've heard from one JWST research group already who claimed that their JWST data made the crisis in cosmology WORSE. So what is going on?! Long video to follow this week... #astrophysics #cosmology #hubbletension👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Are we finally getting some JWST crisis in cosmology results?! #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-04-05 | There's a meeting of the American Physical Society taking place this week and I spotted a *very* interesting talk from Wendy Freedman - the lead researcher of a group using JWST to investigate the "crisis in cosmology" aka the Hubble Tension. This is one of the biggest problems in modern astrophysics, where our two main methods for calculating the expansion rate of the Universe don't agree. We've heard from one research group already, but do we reckon this research group will announce anything? Is new physics on the horizon? #astrophysics #cosmology #hubbletension👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Has JWST found evidence for the FIRST STARS to ever form in the Universe? Dr. Becky 2024-04-04 | AD | To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/drbecky and you'll get 20% off Brilliant's annual premium subscription. | One of JWST’s main goals has always been to find evidence of the first stars to form in the Universe. And this month there’s a paper been published by Maiolino and collaborators claiming to have found just that, around a galaxy known as GN-z11 (the previous record holder of most distant galaxy known). But claims of evidence of the first stars in the universe, aka population III stars, are not be made lightly. So in this video we’re going to chat about (1) what are population III stars? (2) why are they so important in the history of the universe? (3) the evidence that Maiolino et al. claim to have in GN-z11, and (4) what’s next to confirm/refute this?Maiolino et al. (2024; evidence for pop III stars around GN-z11) - arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00953.pdfWang et al. (2022; first claim of population III stars in un-peer reviewed article) - arxiv.org/pdf/2212.04476.pdfBaade (1944; separation of stars into population I and II) - https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1944ApJ...100..137BThornton Page (1966; first written use of"population III" stars) - science.org/doi/10.1126/science.151.3716.1411JWST program 1181 - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/1181.pdfJWST program 4426 - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/4426.pdfJWST program 2926 - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/2926.pdfMy previous video on GN-z11 and the discussion over whether it has a growing supermassive black hole or not - youtube.com/watch?v=VDqdplEIXbEShorts playlist decorating my new office space - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUdT-FqADxaonRjJyC64GQxa00:00 Introduction02:06 What are "Population III" stars (aka the first generation of stars)05:43 Why are Population III stars so important in the history of the Universe?08:24 New evidence for Population III stars from Maiolino et al12:18 What's next to confirm/refute this claim of Population III stars?14:09 Brilliant | AD15:22 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---📚 "The Year In Space" celebrating all things space in 2022 from me and the rest of the Supermassive Podcast team: geni.us/jNcrw ---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Renovating my new office PART 3 - building my desk #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-04-04 | My new desk finally got delivered for my new office space! I can finally work in there after a month of working at the dining room table and I'm so excited. Next up let's make this filming back drop more exciting. Chair was purchased from SlouchDesk was purchased from Lagoon (Woodman St James desk)Mac Studio with Studio Display was #gifted by Apple (on loan for 6 months)
Total Solar Eclipse Monday 8th April 2024 #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-04-03 | Watch the long video on my channel all about WHEN, WHERE, WHAT, HOW, & WHY to watch the total solar eclipse where the Moon will pass in front of the Sun visible across Mexico, the USA, and Canada on Monday 8th April 2024 #eclipse2024 #eclipse #space Long video on the eclipse on my channel: youtube.com/watch?v=luTU6VFWeYYFind out what time it will happen and how much of the sun will be blocked from your location at this link: timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-april-8👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Total Solar Eclipse 2024 - WHEN, WHERE, WHAT, HOW, & WHY Dr. Becky 2024-03-28 | AD | To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit brilliant.org/drbecky and you'll get 20% off Brilliant's annual premium subscription. | Here's all you need to know about the total solar eclipse visible across Mexico, the USA and Canada on Monday 8th April 2024 so you can make a plan for how and where to watch it.DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT ATHE SUN. Please always double check that any eclipse glasses or camera lens/telescope filters you are using pass the ISO 12312-2 international standard and do not have any scratches on them by holding them up to a light in your house first (all you should be able to see through them is the filament of the light bulb). #eclipse2024 #eclipse #astronomy Interactive eclipse map with timings from timeanddate.com - timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2024-april-8@TheEclipseCompany map with cloud coverage and community events - https://theeclipse.company/map/2024-total-eclipseAAS advice on buying eclipse glasses from safe suppliers - eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/viewers-filtersHow to make a pinhole camera - svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/1439100:00 Intro00:30 WHEN is the total solar eclipse?00:39 WHERE can I see the eclipse from?02:11 WHAT is a total solar eclipse?04:10 HOW can I safely watch the eclipse?04:57 Eclipse glasses and how to find safe suppliers06:37 Make a pinhole camera06:47 Use a colander to view the eclipse07:35 How to photograph the total solar eclipse08:08 WHY should I care about the eclipse? What science can we learn (solar corona & Einstein's general relativity)11:12 BRILLIANT | AD12:33 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV Microphone used: Comica VM20 shotgun microphone---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
Painting my new filming space and office! 🖥️ #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-03-25 | It's time to paint my new filming space, because this two-tone sad pink does not scream "we love astrophysics here!" to me at all. What do you think of the colour I went with in the end? I'm really excited to finally get some furniture soon for this space and we can start building up the backdrop for my videos. #homeoffice #interiordesign ---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
An astrophysicist reacts to 3 Body Problem #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-03-22 | I got invited to the London premier of Netflix's new sci-fi show 3 Body Problem (created by the team from Game of Thrones and based on the books by Liu Cixin) and you know I can't turn off my astrophysics brain while I watch sci-fi, so as usual I had many thoughts while watching the first episode. So here's my initial reaction, from diffraction spikes on stars when the Universe is winking, to whether physicists would be happy or sad if theory suddenly stopped agreeing with experiments, to passing off the Super Kamiokande experiment in Japan as a particle accelerator in Oxford! #3bodyproblem #netflix #astrophysicist @Netflix Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
The FASTEST growing supermassive black hole EVER found | Night Sky News March 2024 Dr. Becky 2024-03-21 | Ad: Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to read up on research and the way news interprets it for us. Sign up through my link to get 40% off unlimited access this month. | In this month's Night Sky News we're chatting all about how you can watch the total solar eclipse on the 8th April 2024 across Mexico, the USA, and & Canada, the importance of the space exploration milestone of Intuitive Machines and their Odysseus lander on the Moon, the hard decision NSF faces on whether to continue to fund the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii or the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile, and the fastest growing supermassive black hole that's ever been found! #astronomy #space #nasa "Our Accidental Universe" by Prof Chris Lintott out in the UK on 21st March (note that in the USA the book is called “Accidental Astronomy” and the release date is 11th June) - penguin.co.uk/books/444666/our-accidental-universe-by-lintott-chris/9781911709183NASA eclipse map - science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/where-whentimeanddate.com interactive eclipse map with timings - timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2024-april-8@TheEclipseCompany map with cloud cover percentages and community events - https://theeclipse.company/map/2024-total-eclipseWhat is the Hubble Space Telescope observing now: science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/online-activities/what-is-hubble-observingWhat is the James Webb Space Telescope observing now: science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/what-is-webb-observingAct now to help save the Chandra X-ray telescope (how to contact Congress) - savechandra.org/act Wolf et al. (2024; quasar J0529–4351 properties confirmed as fastest growing) - arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15101.pdfOnken et al. (2023; quasar J0529–4351 first identified) - arxiv.org/pdf/2209.09342.pdfFan et al. (2019; the previously fastest growing quasar known) - arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11924.pdf00:00 Intro01:04 Mercury @ Greatest Eastern Elongation with Jupiter (24th March) 02:29 Saturn returns with Mars + Toenail Moon! (6th Apr) 03:32 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE! (North America, 8th April) 06:08 Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (24th March) 06:39 Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks update! 08:41 Ground News 10:27 NASA Space Telescope Live 11:25 Odysseus IM-1 Moon landing 14:31 NSF given ultimatum to choose either TMT or GMT 20:51 NASA must cut budget to Chandra X-Ray Observatory 21:54 Fastest growing SMBH ever found! 30:09 Conclusion 31:21 BloopersVideo filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV ---📚 My new book, "A Brief History of Black Holes", out NOW in hardback, paperback, e-book and audiobook (which I narrated myself!): http://lnk.to/DrBecky---👕 My new merch, including JWST designs, are available here (with worldwide shipping!): dr-becky.teemill.com---🎧 Royal Astronomical Society Podcast that I co-host: podfollow.com/supermassive ---🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video!---👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.http://drbecky.uk.comrebeccasmethurst.co.uk
My new filming space and office 🥳 #shorts Dr. Becky 2024-03-16 | My new filming and office space is here 🥳 and the first video has been filmed in it! I love interior design so I’ve been having fun planning all the rooms in our new house. I have a vision for how I want to decorate this space - I’m thinking a space-y blue paint colour as my filming backdrop, with some cool shelves that I can display all my favourite things on, maybe even light them with some LEDs! What would you do with this space? Let me know down in the comments below! Also, did anyone else hear how American my voice went when I said closet? I should’ve just called it a cupboard 😅
