Previously the only way to image black holes was with the Event Horizon Telescope, a combination of many radio telescopes across the globe. It is complicated and timeconsuming. But with Vera Rubin going online soon, there might be a simpler way to observe black holes with a single telescope using a really clever method.

Guest: Dr Matt O'Dowd
https://www.mattodowd.space/

Resolving the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes with Gravitational
Microlensing
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10500

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00:00 Intro
01:45 Observing gravitationally lensed quasars
12:58 Why Vera Rubin
19:04 Best case scenario
23:22 What do we know about black holes
38:21 Current obsessions
44:31 Final thoughts

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