Tiny Galaxies and Massive Black Holes with Dr. Matt Taylor

Tiny Galaxies and Massive Black Holes with Dr. Matt Taylor

November 15, 2025 · 40 min · Season 5 · Episode 4

About this episode

Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu discuss the relationship between ultra-compact dwarf galaxies and supermassive black holes with Dr. Matt Taylor.

Can an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy have a supermassive black hole at its center? Are there galaxies whose supermassive black holes aren’t even in their galactic centers? To find out, Dr. Charles Liu and co-host Allen Liu welcome “the other” Dr. Matt Taylor, Assistant Prof. of Astronomy at University of Calgary, who joins us from the control room of the largest astronomical telescope in Canada.

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