120: Biggest Small Black Hole

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


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Some of the things we talk about in this episode:


• The Biggest (small) Black Hole (in our galaxy) (https://www.esa.int/Science_Explorati...)


• The rapid-release paper (https://www.aanda.org/component/artic...)


• The GAIA mission (https://www.esa.int/Science_Explorati...)


• GAIA’s data release schedule (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/r...)


• Types of Black Hole (https://science.nasa.gov/universe/bla...)


• LIGO gravitational wave telescope (https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/)


• Quasi-stars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-star)


• Syzygy Episode 116: Black Hole Sun (https://syzygy.fm/podcast/episode116)