The nearest most massive black hole found! AND it’s in the mass gap | Night Sky News July 2024

JWT is something else. The pics its been sending back are jaw droppingly awesome

That LISA project is so cool, I've been following available developments since the idea was advanced. I hope I'm still around when they start getting data from it ❤

Not sure whats more important to myself, the news you give, or the bloopers you admitt to. Both are vastly intresting to myself. Stay True to your calling, it is so refreshing!

I’d love to look up. My telescope would love to look up, but we see is clouds. 😄

Say this: "I put my foot in my boot."

8:13 IRT the Ariane 6 launch, considering the second stage APU didn't function on the 2nd relight, it cannot deorbit the 2nd stage, release its last two deorbit test satellites and it is now space junk, I think characterizing the mission as successful is an overstatement. The reliability of the APU is critical to the 2nd stage relight capability. Clearly that function will have to be fixed with certainty before any 2nd stage relight missions are attempted. ESA showed a positive face at their press briefing, however, I am certain the disappointment is deep. 20:50 Did you hear the report that there has been detected an intermediate sized black hole in the IRS 13 star cluster located in the Galactic Center? The distance between the IMBH in IRS 13 and Sgr A* is approximately 3.6 light-years (or about 1.1 parsecs). The estimated IMBH's size is 1,300 to 10,000 times that of the Sun. It appears to be gravitationally bound to Sagittarius A,

If Ron goes to collect the Mars samples, I hope he's been practising his leviosa

Unfortunately, a problem with the APU on the upper stage prevented the engine from restarting when required. Still, the Ariane 6 launch was mostly successful.

Rendezvous- Ron 😂 love it, you heard it from Dr. Becky first!!

Ooh I need to get my eyes seen to. For 8 seconds there I thought we had a chance to see Alderaan

That Flexispot desk looks amazing!

Thanks for the mention of the program you were using, I was wondering what it was. Stellarium.

"The Ariane 6 Launch went off without a Hitch" Yea, the launch itself went well. However, once up there, the upper stage was unable to ignite it's engines again and initiate reentry.

Interesting that you mentioned a "focus boost" when switching between sitting and standing at your desk. I noticed the same thing when I started using a standing desk. I feel about 10% smarter when standing. It took over a month for me to comfortable using an optional Standing Desk, but it was worth it.

I usually FF thru commercials, but I’m going to look into one of these ‘elevator’ tables. 🤔😁 Thanks Dr. Becky! 👍

Love your enthusiasm , it’s contagious.

absolutely brilliant content and presentation in this one Dr Becky!

21:30 I was very surprised to learn that x-ray emissions from a potential IMBH wouldn't be expected in a globular cluster. Surely there must be other ways of looking for it, though, right? Even for Sagittarius A*, there was the sort of "smoking gun" time-lapse showing stars clearly orbiting around something we couldn't see. With that many stars in that compact of a space, and with so much less dust obscuring our view, surely there has to be a way to get more "direct" evidence of this, right? (Also wondering if a tidal disruption event would be possible)

I agree Dr. Becky, your history of most distant galaxies is one of your best! It's one of those videos I didn't know I wanted. Among other things, It really helped to contextualize the frequent "most distant" galaxy news we get. Of course, all your videos are terrific! ♥

exceptional video🧡