Episode 113: Black Holes? Here? It’s more likely than you think.

astro[sound]bites · Episode 113: Black Holes? Here? It’s more likely than you think.

In today’s episode, Cole, Cormac, and Shashank celebrate our glorious return from hiatus by tackling an astronomical favorite: black holes. These guys are important to astronomers for a wide range of reasons, but what happens when you find a black hole somewhere weird? Like in another black hole’s accretion disk? Or in your model of dark energy? Or in a Hot dog? Shashank covers a lot of similar-sounding acronyms for when we find black holes living inside (the accretion disks) of other black holes, while Cormac does his second ever astrobite with a type of sausage in the title, establishing a worrying precedent.
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