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Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, a team of astronomers have measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. The merging of two supermassive black holes is a phenomenon that has long been predicted, though never observed. In this podcast, Dr. Roger Romani discusses the discovery of this system and what we can learn about massive black hole pairs from this system. Bios: - Rob Sparks is in the Communications, Education and Engagement group at NSF's NOIRLab in Tucson, Arizona. - Dr. Roger W. Romani is a member of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University, where he has been Professor of Physics for over thirty years. His research interests center on black holes and neutron stars, which he and his research group study with a combination of telescope observations, from the ground and from space, and theoretical modeling. Links NOIRLab Press Release: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2405/ NOIRLab social media channels can be found at https://www.facebook.com/NOIRLabAstro https://twitter.com/NOIRLabAstro https://www.instagram.com/noirlabastro/ https://www.youtube.com/noirlabastro We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
Today's podcast is titled, “Dark Matter.” Recorded in 1994, Dr. Marc Davis, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Berkeley and Dr. Bernard Sadoulet, Director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics at UC Berkeley, explain how we know what we know about the nature of the universe, discuss theories that had yet to be proved, and predict the emphasis of future research into the science of dark matter. Listen now, and don't forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Get your DEMYSTICON 2024 tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demysticon-2024-tickets-727054969987 Sign up for a yearly Patreon membership for discounted tickets: https://bit.ly/3lcAasB Dr. Enrique Lopez Rodriguez is an astrophysicist at Stanford's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, where is working on a comprehensive survey of magnetic fields in nearby galaxies. He has published extensively on the subjects of extragalactic magnetism, active galactic nuclei, infrared polarimetric instrument, and next generation telescopes. We talk about studying the invisible, developing models for the structure of the cosmos, becoming the highest Canarian that ever lived, the value of mad geniuses, becoming useful, and much more. 00:00:00 Go! 00:00:16 Talking magnetic fields 00:11:20 Who is Enrique Lopez Rodriguez 00:25:17 Absence of coherent theories 00:33:26 Electromagnetism vs Gravity 00:44:15 Magnetic reversals and long cycle effects 00:53:39 Getting an accurate read on the cosmos 01:03:07 Instrumentalizing the Cosmos 01:13:11 Bringing new ideas around 01:22:37 Brilliance lost to rough talk 01:32:45 Finding space for ideas to unfurl 01:43:01 Dealing with mad genius 01:54:03 Orphaning of ideas 02:03:19 The only place in the world you get paid to explore 02:13:30 There's no place like home 02:25:56 Closing thoughts Tell us what you think in the comments or on our Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub #magnetism #électromagnétisme #cosmicmagnets #cosmology #astrophysics #astronomy #astromagnetism #electricuniverse #electromagneticuniverse #gravity #galacticmarvels #galaxy #galaxyscience #stanford #stanfordastrophysics #stanfordphysics #science #sciencepodcast #longformpodcast #demystifyscipodcast #demystifysci #longformscience #longformconversations #deepthoughts #whoadude Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomics Join our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss - Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD - Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySci MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671
The mysterious ‘neutrino' has a nickname: the ‘ghost particle.' Benjamin Tam is finishing his PhD in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University. He takes us two kilometres to a laboratory deep below the earth's surface where he and fellow scientists hope to watch neutrinos finally explain the universe's existence.
With the launch of Artemis I, NASA has placed its focus back on the moon. Joseph Silk is Bloomberg Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University and a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris and the Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Oxford. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what lunar exploration looks like more than 50 years since the first moon landing, from new powerful telescopes to potential mining. His book is “Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind.”
Today's podcast is titled, “Progress in Cosmology: 2000.” Prof. Bernard Sadoulet, Director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics at University of California – Berkeley and Professor of Astronomy and Physics Marc Davis discuss the progress that has been made in Cosmology at the turn of the century. Listen now, and don't forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
This episode Dr Du spoke about some of her work looking at the physical properties of the interstellar medium in distant galaxies. She also spoke about her interest in asgtronomy outreach and the kind of work she does as outreach manager at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. Listen to the end of the podcast to hear her advice on learning more about astronomy at a young age!
“As an administrator for 15 years, I still tried to do science and it was difficult because being a dean, every day there is a problem. Every day you have to solve some personal issues, so it's difficult to concentrate and what I would do was, whenever there was an opportunity to go to a conference away from the university, particularly in a different country, I would sit in the conference room listening to these lectures. You know how it is with meetings, maybe 10% of the speakers are exciting and interesting. What I found is even when I was not listening because I was in this atmosphere of people talking about physics, my mind was set free and would just start percolating. And all of a sudden ideas would come completely unrelated to what the speaker was talking about, except that they were scientific ideas. And I would jot them down and I found that this was really quite an interesting process because it was kind of an immersion process where you actually are not concentrating on what is exactly in front of you, but it puts you in this mood. The brain turns on a different lode and I think by association other ideas come up.”Pierre Sokolsky is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy and Dean Emeritus of the College of Science at the University of Utah. He has been a leader in the field of Particle Astrophysics, with a specific interest in the highest energy particles produced by natural processes in the universe. Born in France, he was educated at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, past Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society.· faculty.utah.edu/u0029107-PIERRE_SOKOLSKY/hm/index.hml · www.creativeprocess.info
“As an administrator for 15 years, I still tried to do science and it was difficult because being a dean, every day there is a problem. Every day you have to solve some personal issues, so it's difficult to concentrate and what I would do was, whenever there was an opportunity to go to a conference away from the university, particularly in a different country, I would sit in the conference room listening to these lectures. You know how it is with meetings, maybe 10% of the speakers are exciting and interesting. What I found is even when I was not listening because I was in this atmosphere of people talking about physics, my mind was set free and would just start percolating. And all of a sudden ideas would come completely unrelated to what the speaker was talking about, except that they were scientific ideas. And I would jot them down and I found that this was really quite an interesting process because it was kind of an immersion process where you actually are not concentrating on what is exactly in front of you, but it puts you in this mood. The brain turns on a different lode and I think by association other ideas come up.”Pierre Sokolsky is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy and Dean Emeritus of the College of Science at the University of Utah. He has been a leader in the field of Particle Astrophysics, with a specific interest in the highest energy particles produced by natural processes in the universe. Born in France, he was educated at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, past Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society.· faculty.utah.edu/u0029107-PIERRE_SOKOLSKY/hm/index.hml · www.creativeprocess.info
Pierre Sokolsky is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy and Dean Emeritus of the College of Science at the University of Utah. He has been a leader in the field of Particle Astrophysics, with a specific interest in the highest energy particles produced by natural processes in the universe. Born in France, he was educated at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, past Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society.· faculty.utah.edu/u0029107-PIERRE_SOKOLSKY/hm/index.hml · www.creativeprocess.info
“As an administrator for 15 years, I still tried to do science and it was difficult because being a dean, every day there is a problem. Every day you have to solve some personal issues, so it's difficult to concentrate and what I would do was, whenever there was an opportunity to go to a conference away from the university, particularly in a different country, I would sit in the conference room listening to these lectures. You know how it is with meetings, maybe 10% of the speakers are exciting and interesting. What I found is even when I was not listening because I was in this atmosphere of people talking about physics, my mind was set free and would just start percolating. And all of a sudden ideas would come completely unrelated to what the speaker was talking about, except that they were scientific ideas. And I would jot them down and I found that this was really quite an interesting process because it was kind of an immersion process where you actually are not concentrating on what is exactly in front of you, but it puts you in this mood. The brain turns on a different lode and I think by association other ideas come up.”Pierre Sokolsky is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy and Dean Emeritus of the College of Science at the University of Utah. He has been a leader in the field of Particle Astrophysics, with a specific interest in the highest energy particles produced by natural processes in the universe. Born in France, he was educated at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, past Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society.· faculty.utah.edu/u0029107-PIERRE_SOKOLSKY/hm/index.hml · www.creativeprocess.info
Pierre Sokolsky is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy and Dean Emeritus of the College of Science at the University of Utah. He has been a leader in the field of Particle Astrophysics, with a specific interest in the highest energy particles produced by natural processes in the universe. Born in France, he was educated at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, past Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society.· faculty.utah.edu/u0029107-PIERRE_SOKOLSKY/hm/index.hml · www.creativeprocess.info
Talk abstract This talk will be broken into three parts spanning my graduate and professional career. I share some of the science I did as part of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment to detect neutrinos interacting in the Antarctic ice while I was a graduate student. I will then discuss the transition to how I got a job in engineering consulting for government clients, primarily in the Air Force. Although I had aspired to be a professor, I ended up taking this route in search of a permanent position and career path. After two years in the industry, I am now transitioning again to a new role working directly for the government in the Air Force Research Laboratory. I am passionate about helping students accomplish their school and career ambitions. After spending nearly ten years in academia, and now outside of academia, I decided to convert the lessons learned and experiences lived into a series of books to help students navigate school and career. I will conclude this talk with a summary of the main points from my ‘How to PhD' books. About the speaker Dr. Oindree Banerjee received her BS in Physics from North Carolina State University in 2013 and went on to graduate studies at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, where she studied high energy neutrinos as part of the ANITA collaboration. After obtaining her Ph.D. she transitioned to engineering consulting for government clients and is currently transitioning again to a direct position working for the Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. Banerjee is the author of the best-selling book "How to PhD: The Graduate School Handbook" which is a step-by-step graduate school guide and self-help book complete with everything you need to know to succeed at all stages of your Ph.D. from applying to graduate schools to successfully finishing the degree. The talk was given on Friday, November 6th @ 12:05 P.M.
Join us for an exclusive Campus Beat interview with Professor Arthur McDonald, Nobel Laureate in Physics and the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics, Emeritus in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy at Queen’s University. Professor McDonald chats with us about his collaborative work with Canadian and international colleagues on the […]
with Dr. Ignacio Taboada
A full reading of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle"The Oh-My-God particle was an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on the evening of 15 October 1991 over Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, by the University of Utah's Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector.[1][2] Its observation was a shock to astrophysicists (hence the name), who estimated its energy to be approximately 3×1020 eV or 3×108 TeV. This is 20000000 times more energetic than..."
Physicists around the world are theorizing that reality as we know it may just be one big hologram. That means, the 3-D objects you see around you aren't actually 3-dimensional. At the moment, this is just an idea. But a team of physicists and researchers at Fermilab are conducting an experiment to try to find evidence that such a theory is possible. Joining us to explain is Craig Hogan, Director of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics and professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 3rd morning of Theoretical Physics covering the connections between cosmology and particle physics.
Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics hosted the 3rd morning of Theoretical Physics covering the connections between cosmology and particle physics.
Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 6:45 PM Balzan Lecture - From Here to Eternity Joseph I. Silk Institut d'Astrophysique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Oxford Astronomers peer back into the past with the world's largest telescopes. They see billions of galaxies, and they find indications of evolution and youth. Before the first galaxies, more than ten billion years ago, there were the Dark Ages. And before then, the Big Bang. But there is much of the universe that we cannot probe. Dr. Silk will describe the universe that we see and give an astronomer's perspective on the universe that we cannot see. He will describe the past with some confidence, and will speculate about the future, as perceived by cosmologists. Co-hosted by the Carnegie Institution for Science with the Embassies of Italy and Switzerland, and the Balzan Foundation.
Computational Cosmologist Tom Abel of Stanford University and the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology is using some badass computers and sophisticated simulations to recreate a mysterious period of cosmic history called the "dark age," when the first stars and galaxies were formed. Tom shares some truly mind-boggling insights into how the universe got made, and made us.
The confluence of particle physics and astrophysics has ushered in an exciting new frontier field by the name "particle astrophysics". While the birth of particle astrophysics dates back to Victor Hess's historic discovery of cosmic rays in 1912, the past 20 years has seen burgeoning research activities. But what can particle astrophysics do for you? In 2003 the Turner Committee charged by the US National Research Council (NRC) released its formal report after 3 years of investigation: "Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century", in which particle astrophysics occupies the center stage for addressing the listed 11 big questions. Aspired by such calling, many universities in the world have established new dedicated centers to compete for the leadership in this field, including the Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (LeCosPA) founded by the National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2007. In this talk we will introduce the topic with a historic perspective and motivate it by reviewing its science potentials. We then introduce the activities at NTU LeCosPA. In five years, it has launched vigorous theoretical and experimental programs, including the balloon-borne ANITA project in Antarctica to search for ultra-high energy cosmic neutrino, the ARA Cosmic Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole that will become the world's largest neutrino observatory when completed, and the UFFO satellite GRB telescope that aims at detecting the very initial GRB light curves within one second of the burst event. We will review the progress of these projects and their future prospects.
Shh - can you keep it down? Nope. Not unless you want to do away with civilization. Our buzzing, humming, whirling, machine-driven world is a poster child for technological progress, right? As is hearing loss. It's driven one man to search the world for silence. We'll hear what he didn't hear, and what Einstein predicted we should hear in deep space, where gravitational waves may reveal the hidden sounds of the universe, including the birth of black holes. Guests: George Foy - Author of Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence Garret Keizer - Author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want Craig Hogan - Director for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Descripción en español First aired July 5, 2010 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ENCORE Shh - can you keep it down? Nope. Not unless you want to do away with civilization. Our buzzing, humming, whirling, machine-driven world is a poster child for technological progress, right? As is hearing loss. It’s driven one man to search the world for silence. We’ll hear what he didn’t hear, and what Einstein predicted we should hear in deep space, where gravitational waves may reveal the hidden sounds of the universe, including the birth of black holes. Guests: George Foy - Author of Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence Garret Keizer - Author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want Craig Hogan - Director for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Descripción en español First aired July 5, 2010
Tony Noble is a particle physicist studying how those particles have influenced the way the universe came to be.