Avery Broderick Public Lecture: Images from the Edge of Spacetime

On Oct. 3, 2018, Avery Broderick (Perimeter Institute Associate Faculty member and Delaney Family John Archibald Wheeler Chair) delivered a Perimeter Public Lecture on humanity's quest to glimpse black holes using the Event Horizon Telescope.

[DonH_Zeroth]

I just watched this video. Even with limited knowledge of this topic, I enjoyed it and Dr. Avery Broderick presented this in an amazing manner so that I could follow along.

[procactus]

This guy is good. One of the best on black holes I've seen.

[edkoetsier]

That was the best presentation I have ever seen of astronomical matters, hands down. Wow. Even when the Image was released.

[onebylandtwoifbysearunifby]

Thanks for not "Dumbing it Down" too much👍
One of the best presentations on Radio Astronomy; and in context of Black Holes too. Both topics were joined nicely here.

[upsydaysy]

Scientist with a ton of qualifications and expertise gives lecture on his topic of research.
People comment on his hair, glasses, weight, shoes, breathing problems, gender, perceived social skills.
Last time ever I look down at the pit of you tube comments.

[markboccaccio]

It is amazing to me that there are human beings, creatures alive at this very moment, who understand this Man as easily as I do Frank, my next door neighbor, who just told me about his 8 year old daughter Brenda’s progress in Elementary School . She recently learned the correct way to pronounce the word “Infinity”

[hmessec]

As much as I can minimally appreciate the amount of sheer data, , ingenuity, creativity, processing, and juggling all of that information and creativity (and more) to fit into a cohesive model of Black Holes. I am not facile enough in basic physics, Einsteinian (relativistic?) physics, and theoretic physics, or algebra through trigonometry, to have followed this presentation beyond the introductory portion, defining what would be included in the lecture.

I believe for the first time I stand alone in being the only audience member who is ill prepared (education wise) to understand, even conceptualize, one of your (PI's) amazing lectures. Normally I find these lectures to be "self contained" and include almost all of the information to "puzzle out" the concepts and theories presented. This, to me, was enormously "open ended". As I stated, I was quite ill prepared.

Now, could you repeat that one more time, please Dr Broderick, using small words in short sentences? (just kidding) More power to you, sir.

P.S. It is now October 2022, I would love to know how current discoveries fit into Dr. Broderick's work. I suspect they "fit like a glove".

[xcq]

That was a very brief Q&A considering there were probably so many more questions one could ask after this interesting talk.

[frankfm]

This was a good presentation.You need a special mind set to sit and watch this all the way through.

[earthbjornnahkaimurrao]

Great Presentation. It is rare to have such a good speaker in Physics.

[davidhenningson]

Great presentation!! I enjoyed it and learned a few things today😀 Keep up the fantastic content!!😊

[dustyfloor]

Can't we be hopeful that we're not anywhere near a black hole. It's great that we can look at it and understand so much more about our universe. But the science it's expensive.

[chrisdooley]

As a definite amateur I totally enjoyed this lecture even though at points I thought my head might explode from trying to process some of the information lol. The guy is obviously very enthusiastic about his work which is infectious enough that it kept me until the end. I’ll definitely watch more thnx

[daveglo]

so im only 15 mins in so this might be mentioned later.... do black holes pull in dark matter/energy? those plumes being expelled look like they have so much more matter than you would expect from what has been consumed... maybe dark matter gets converted into something less exotic and hard to detect once swallowed by a black hole then expelled ?? equally if they dont consume dark matter/energy, why not ?

[Thedudeabides]

The baloney ends and the part you came for starts at 2:51. And on a more positive note, this was fantastic.

[ugowar]

1:24:11 Just imagine how many of today's scientists and engineers have been inspired to go into their respective fields thanks to a sci-fi show that dared to imagine a *hopeful* vision of our future.

[Metalkatt]

Watching after the Event Horizon result came out. It's interesting how the colours used in the imaging are the ones they used for the simulations. (Don't get grumpy; we all know the images are false colour.) I'm impressed how much the simulations matched what we actually saw, structure-wise.

[robydee]

One hour to first ever black hole image 🌑.Go team Earth 🌎

[MM-kqeu]

A rather pedantic style of lecturing. However, it's guys like this that are going to eventually figure it all out.

[kirkhamandy]

48:27 How sad and mildly ashamed I feel not seeing a pin in the UK. Good work guys, keep it up, look forward to seeing something amazing.