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NEWS & MEDIA
Rare sighting of luminous jet spewed by supermassive black hole
Nature article
University of Maryland press release
In global media (quasi-complete
list including CNN, Reuters, Times,
Forbes, EuroNews, FoxNews, BBC,
New Scientist and more!)
Credit: Carl Knox/OzGrav
The Zwicky Transient facility unveiled yet another extremely rare cosmic event! We witnessed a star being tidally disrupted and consumed by a supermassive black hole, which launched a luminous beam of light and material towards Earth about 8.5 billion years ago. The transient source was named AT2022cmc.
Interview in Science Magazine
Article by Zack Savitsky with title: "Radio bursts from ‘zombie’ black holes excite astronomers"
Interview in Science Magazine
Article by Dan Clery with title: "All-seeing telescope will snap exploding stars, may spy a hidden world"
Astronomy on Tap - Los Angeles!
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With:
Dr Cameron Hummels
Prof. Rachel Bezanson
for
Caltech Astro
Podcast:
From milliseconds to years: How fast transient objects appear and disappear in the sky?
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With Reza Katebi & Rahul Kashyap
for
The Edge of Science
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Interview:
A bar talk with the expert
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With journalist Iris Andreoni and in collaboration
with our friends from Make You Greener and L'Ecopost
Article: Inside the amazing, crazy hunt for super-powerful space energy
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Published on The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
image: D. Futselaar
When Art meets Astronomy...
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"Deeper Darker Brighter"
Hawthorn Town Hall, VIC
12 May - 1 July 2018
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In collaboration with the "Deeper Wider Faster" astronomy program
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Find out more about the Artists:
Pamela Bain
Carolyn Lewens
image: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick, Wikimedia Commons
Astronomers shocked by massive supernova that keeps exploding for more than 600 days
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Interview published on The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Canberra Times
image: Carl Knox
Press release: The first detection of an electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave event
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photo: Carl Knox
image: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
Video:
"We've discovered gravitational waves,
what's next?"
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Similar (better) version of the video on Twitter
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photo: Cristina Baglio
Kilonovae, kilonovae everywhere!
Disclaimer: this meme was created before O3 ;-)
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