Episode 49: Ultimate Fate of the Universe

In this episode, Tom has unwelcome visitors in the middle of the night, Ped has a new Star Wars theory, and they both geek out to the first image of a Black Hole before musing on the Ultimate Fate of the Universe.

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• Notre-Dame de Paris

• Our Nocturnal Visitors

• First trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

• The Mandalorian

• Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

• Event Horizon Telescope

• Event horizon

• Accretion disk

• “How to take a picture of a black hole” (Katie Bouman Ted Talk)

• Very-long-baseline interferometry

• “How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole” (Veritasium)

• The M87 Black Hole as seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory

• Ultimate fate of the universe

• Heat death of the universe

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)