[Interview+] The Infinity Galaxy: First Evidence of a Direct Collapse Supermassive Black Hole?
How did supermassive black holes get so big so early? There are two main models for that, and JWST just got a huge boost for the one that suggests they can form via a direct collapse of gas clouds. How did the researchers pull the first observations of a potential birth of a SMBH? Finding out in this interview.
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haha "don't worry nobody is watching this"!
great interview. You do such great work.
Fun interview . . . from SMBHs to the Ort Cloud 😀 Love it. Thanks for putting this together for us.
When you reported on the furthest recorded frb, my first thought was that the Australians finally moved their microwave further down the hallway 😃
This is probably my favourite interview so far. It was just a good knowledgeable conversation between two people who are really interested in their topics. Loved the answer to what are you obsessed with
😂😂 your enthusiasm about the mothra name is awesome 😎 great interview
Another amazing interview! Thank you.
The universe is like a loaf of bread. The fabric of spacetime then is the dark matter envelope. Outside of the bag is a sea of quantum particles which is where the rest of the wave is. That envelope is all around us, like the air we breathe. It would need to be inside spacetime to enter a black hole. The more mass there is in spacetime the more dark matter flows in to reinforce the envelope. If too much flows into one area some has to flow out. This removes heat from the area and brings in more baryonic matter.
Was behind on my watching, so finished the last Q&A right before this. That monster that's 6 billion solar masses answers the size limit question rather well.
If dark matter is in the fabric of spacetime then it may not be swallowed by a black hole. This would mean that it has to circulate. Which would feed baryonic matter at a higher rate as the heat would be carried from the poles.
So far we can see that dark matter ONLY seems to interact with the rest of the universe gravitationally. It isn't clear to me how something that does this suddenly can ignore a black hole event horizon. It does circulate, quite literally, around the centre of mass. Normal baryonic matter interacts frictionally in highly dense regions near the event horizon causing it to "feed" the black hole as it falls below the event horizon. What is not clear is how dark matter behaves in this vicinity. If it is totally non-interactive, only a gravitational kick would push it below that limit meaning it would at least circulate for much much longer than baryonic matter. "Fabric of spacetime" is a thing that everything we observe well resides in, probably including dark matter (maybe).
Do we know how far apart the three black holes are ? Could one of them be ejected (3 body problem)?
Tjhursday @ about 5:30 AM Central. The video plays for a few seconds then stops for about 15 seconds and the cycle repeats. Here (with no ads) kinda sucks. Is this a case of: "You get what you pay for"?
M.O.T.H.R.A. Multi Optic Telescope something something?
One question! Is Dr. van Dokkum on Twitter? I found a handle but it seems inactive and I’m not sure if it’s actually his. Twitter is the only platform I use so hoping you guys can get on there again. You too Fraser!
Most of the creators I follow have eschewed Twitter for Mastadon. Some also use Bluesky.
BEYOND EXCITING! I NEED A SCOPE! 😱 Thank you for putting this interview together! Most intriguing news I’ve heard this week! 👏👏👏👏👏😮