Schwarze Löcher | Reinhard Genzel

Unser Freund und Kollege Nicolas Semak ist am 25.4. an den Folgen eines Schlaganfalls gestorben. Wir sind noch dabei, den Schock und die Trauer zu verarbeiten und melden uns hier nur kurz zu Wort, um euch zu sagen, wie es mit den verschiedenen Podcasts weitergeht. 

Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und Drohungen des russischen Präsidenten an den Westen wiedererwecken bei einigen Menschen Ängste vor einem eigentlich längst der Vergangenheit zugeordnetem Szenario: ein Krieg unter Einbeziehung nuklearer Waffen. Der promovierte Politikw ...  Show more

Gravity is the weakest of the fundamental forces of nature, yet, if you have enough of it, it can create the most powerful thing in the known universe: a black hole.  The very idea of a black hole didn’t really exist until the early 20th century, and now they are regularly found ...  Show more

In 1908, on a sunny, clear, quiet morning in Siberia, witnesses recall seeing a blinding light streak across the sky, and then… the earth shook, a forest was flattened, fish were thrown from streams, and roofs were blown off houses. The “Tunguska event,” as it came to be known ...

SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 78
*Discovery of the fastest known star
Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in the Milky Way orbiting Sagittarius A* the Supermassive black hole at the galactic centre in just four Earth years.
*Physicists confront the neu ...  Show more

Is space infinitely stretchable? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore fan grab bag questions about supermassive black holes, Planck lengths, and the gravitational wave background with extragalactic astrophysicist and host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd.

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