Michelle Thaller
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1,835 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
Michelle Thaller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're something you can take an image of.
You can take a picture of.
And these neutron stars have physics that we don't understand.
You take two times the mass of the sun, you crush it into 20 miles.
We know that we can't describe the interior of that thing yet.
You know, we don't have the physics that matches that type of density.
And this crazy little contraption, I mean, it's about the size of a washing machine.
It was built in a lab just on the floor that I used to work at at NASA.
It's cheap, easy to make.
I shouldn't say easy.
But, I mean, it's actually able to create maps of what the surface of these objects are like.
They're 20 miles across.
They're thousands of light years away.
And you can actually create a map of what the temperature is like.
And one of the things we see on these maps is the distortion where space and time curves around these objects.
You know, they rotate very fast, and there are hot spots we see coming in and off the neutron star.
But then as the hot spot goes behind the star, the light bends up and over, and we can actually still see the hot spot because space and time are bending around these objects.
You can see that.
That's not a mathematical simulation.
That's not a theory.
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