About this episode

The episode discusses quasars, a peculiar object around the Earth, and includes trivia and space news.

Quasars, the energetic engines driven by the voracious appetite of supermassive black holes, have been observed in the very early universe, upending ideas about how long it took to form these behemoths in the first place. New results on a peculiar object tagging along around the Sun with the Earth casts doubt on its origin as a possible fragment of the Moon. And the climate takes a swipe at strange quark for complaining about the heat. Check it all out, plus trivia and space news, on Walkabout the Galaxy.

People in this episode

Hosts: Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, James Cooney

Topics covered

• quasars
• supermassive black holes
• Earth's quasi-moon
• climate
• space news
• trivia

Keywords

• quasars
• supermassive black holes
• Earth
• quasi-moon
• climate
• space news
• trivia

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Books & works: Walkabout the Galaxy

Places: Earth, Sun

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