35: THAT Black Hole Image

Help us make Syzygy even better! Tell your friends and give us a review (https://www.imore.com/how-rate-or-review-podcast-your-iphone-or-ipad) , or show your support on Patreon: patreon.com/syzygypod (https://patreon.com/syzygypod) Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart (http://kipstewart.com) and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden (http://www.york.ac.uk/physics/people/brunsden/) from the Department of Physics at the University of York. On the web: syzygy.fm (http://syzygy.fm/) | Twitter: @syzygypod (https://twitter.com/SyzygyPod) Things we talk about in this episode: The Black Hole Image press conference (NSF, USA) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnJi0Jy692w) Event Horizon Telescope (https://eventhorizontelescope.org) How To Understand the Image of a Black Hole (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo) , by Veritasium … and explainer afterwards (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GVbuddri8) M87 Galaxy (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-87) and its jet Katie Bouman is all of us (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47891902) Katie Bouman’s TED talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvezCVcsYs) Interstellar’s black hole (https://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/) Doppler beaming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_beaming) Black hole history (https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-black-holes-107298) Rotating black holes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu3645D4ZlI) (more Veritasium, what is it with this guy) Pale Blue Dot (https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/536/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/)