Weekly Space Hangout - Jan 17, 2018: Dr. Bram Venemans and Distant Quasars

We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Wednesday at 5:00 pm Pacific / 8:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today or the Weekly Space Hangout YouTube page.

Dr. Venemans is a research staff scientist working at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany. His research topics include the discovery of black holes in the early Universe, the characterisation of the galaxies hosting these distant black holes, the Epoch of Reionisation and the galaxy environment of active galaxies.

Bram is a member of the team that recently discovered the most distant quasar currently known and its host galaxy. You can read about this discover here:

[MrStefGamble]

First, I absolutely LOVE these people, they are what has been missing in my life.

Next, if a loose bolt is found, the solution is to engrave a number code on every component.
Then you will know its exact location.

Back to the vid.
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[albinscott]

Very interesting video, as usual! Unfortunately the sound volume is too low.

[TimUckun]

As an ending have each guest pick some cool or interesting thing. Could be anything, movie, book, toy, etc.

[rgraph]

Any mission that gets us closer to a cloud city on (or above) Venus has my backing. FWIW. If, for example, NASA was to call me up and ask me "Hey Richard, what do you think that we should do next?" then Venus would be my answer every time. Though they haven't called me yet.

[MrStefGamble]

Re the Interview.

You know how it is with Black Holes.
8000 times the mass off the Sun.
800, 000 times the mass of the Sun.
8 MILLION times the mass of the Sun.

Pretty soon it becomes a very big mass.

[MrStefGamble]

If a quadcoptor lands on a Titan like planet, and the wind flips it over, reverse the current flow to the blades.
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[halilzelenka]

here's an idea: cancel construction of the Gerald Ford Class carrier and give the money to NASA to fund a mission to Venus to explore the atmosphere and test out their Venus-hardened electronics by landing on the surface, maybe at the highest elevation point on the planet