Dr. David M. Livingston is my colleague and co-host on Hotel Mars, and we're off to the beginning!
Well, near to it, thanks to extremely helpful research recently published in Nature. This is the peer-reviewed, top-of-the-pile science journal in Europe, comparable to Science magazine here in the US. The paper is entitled, “A gas-enshrouded red black hole at cosmic Dawn.”
That’s where we are: Cosmic Dawn. In the paper, they aren’t quite using the term of art that’s currently showing up everywhere in news reporting: the Black Hole Star.
We have one of the major discoverers behind this research with us today—a really good sport, Rohan Naidu of MIT. He is now a man who has to explain what a black hole star actually is. It almost seems like cheating to put together two great cosmic mysteries!
Watch the full conversation above, or listen to an audio version below:
Image Credit: MIT
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“A gas-enshrouded and gas-reddened black hole at cosmic dawn” in Nature
