Black Hole Awakens ft. Dr. Paula Sánchez-Sáez

In late 2019, an unremarkable galaxy with the catalog number SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever. Curious as to why, astronomers used data from space and ground-based observatories to track changes in the galaxy’s brightness and concluded that we are witnessing the sudden awakening of the massive black hole at the galaxy's core. The results were published in Astronomy & Astrophysics in June 2024 with lead author Paula Sánchez Sáez, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Germany.

Join Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center, Simon Steel, in a chat with Dr. Sánchez Sáez about these results and what they mean for our understanding of galaxies and their black holes.


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[RoshanAdhikari-bl]

Thank you so much for only a kind online meeting.

[RoshanAdhikari-bl]

Good morning, I am Prof. Roshan Adhikari, a research scientist in cosmology from Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

[RoshanAdhikari-bl]

Supermassive black hole, forms due to serial collapses of neutron stars into a beginning star, becomes likely an acceptable theory to its possibility.

[saltyassassin]

I suggest the next huge telescope be named the “Mega Huge Telescope”!! 😁

[movastronomy]

I was going to ask could The James Webb take a look at this ?