Black Holes
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Episode 81: One Last Burst – Gamma Rays and Afterglows
In this episode, Jacinta chats with Dr Simon de Wet about the discoveries he made during his Master’s and PhD theses regarding mysterious gamma ray bursts (GRBs). Meanwhile, the team […]
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Episode 80: The Mightee MeerKAT’s View of the Universe
In this episode, Jacinta takes us back to Oxford to catch up with researchers leading one of the biggest astronomy projects with South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope — the MIGHTEE Survey! We hear from Prof. Matt Jarvis, Dr. Imogen Whittam, and Dr. Anastasia Ponomareva at the University of Oxford, who explain how astronomers use MeerKAT to study how galaxies have changed over the history of the Universe - a process called galaxy evolution.
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Episode 77: Troublesome ‘Inkathazo’ and the Age of Giants
In this "mid-season special" episode, we introduce you to an extraordinary giant radio galaxy nicknamed "Inkathazo", meaning ‘trouble’ in isiXhosa and isiZulu. We speak with Kathleen Charlton, a Master’s student from the University of Cape Town, about the discovery of Inkathazo and her newly published work on the topic.
