Michelle Thaller
speaker
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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We need better physics.
We got two big ones right in front of you, neutron stars and black holes, right?
So, I mean, these black holes as well, you know, what is inside a black hole?
Is there an inside if space and time don't really exist?
You know, and then much more easy to see are these neutron stars.
The people who study neutron stars at NASA, they had this wonderful expression.
They're like, with a black hole, you can't see anything.
It collapses into an event horizon.
Nothing's coming out.
With a neutron star, you got the freaking thing right there in front of you.
You can actually observe something.
And so, you know, they figured that neutron stars are much more exciting than black holes because you can actually, like, do experiments, take a picture, build a telescope.
But this experiment was an inexpensive, small observatory that's up on the International Space Station.
And, I mean, they're doing incredible work about the nature of physics and testing where our limits are.
It's unbelievable what you can do with even a relatively inexpensive mission.
Well, you were talking about these little red dots that the Webb telescope is seeing.
So, I mean, what you've just done is put your finger on, I think, one of the most fascinating unanswered questions in astronomy right now, that every major galaxy has a big black hole in the center.
You know, the one in the middle of our galaxy is about four million times the mass of the sun.
And physically, it's not that big.
It's about, let's say, round about the orbit of, say, the inner solar system, Mercury, kind of around there.
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