In today’s ep, we celebrate our glorious return from hiatus by tackling black holes in weird places. Shashank covers a lot of acronyms for BHs on top of other BHs, while Cormac does his 2nd Astrobite with a sausage in the title, establishing a worrying precedent.
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Today we crack open Young Massive (Stellar) Clusters! Shashank shares a recipe for cooking up YMCs via computational collision, Lucia peeks at their emergence from dust-embedded embryonic environs, and we wrap up by talking about Wittgenstein, for some reason. 🔭
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The one thing better than studying the hugest compact objects is smashing them together! This time, we cover black hole mergers and what they reveal about our universe. Lucia explores some specific spins and Cole makes Shashank talk about cosmology again. 🔭

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This week Shashank, Cormac and Cole talk Bayesian statistics. Cole brings up a flashy new paper about a potential biosignature on an exoplanet and Cormac counters with some rebuttals. Along the way, we discuss probabilities, priors, likelihoods and posteriors! 🔭

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This week we cover the misunderstood middle child of astrophysics: Intermediate Mass Black Holes! Cole covers their globular cluster gains, Cormac picks a precessing pair, and Lucia really abuses her ability to add sound effects to our recording.

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This week, Lucia, Cormac, and Shashank dive into the depth of the Mediterranean Sea and journey to the icy desert of Antarctica to discover more about neutrinos.

Photo: first detection of a neutrino in a bubble chamber (1970).

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The more things change, the more they, uh, change. This ep covers events changing our night sky view. Cormac presents a star bullying a black hole accretion disc, Shashank, a persnickety pulsar, and Cole gets his pulsar music rant cut for time.

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In this episode, we say goodbye to one of our beloved hosts, Sabrina Berger. We look at the depths and breadths of Sabrina’s research experience, ask about her experience in 3 different countries and her advice for future grad students!

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In this episode, the (domestic) American sector of Astro[sound]bites covers the recent proposed budget cuts to NASA, the largest in its history. We cover the downsides that these cuts would have for science and the economy, and what you can do to speak out. 🔭
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In this week's episode, Cormac, Cole and Lucia catch you up with all things Citizen Science. From scouting clumps to finding a new dwarf galaxy, we perambulate around some participatory projects. astrosoundbites.com/2025/05/10/e...

Stellar deaths can be rather violent - and sometimes premature. This week we discuss tidal disruption events and their connection extreme coronal lines. And we take a look at a superstar supernova remnant: the Crab Nebula. astrosoundbites.com/2025/04/27/e...

This week we talk about the big boy on cosmology campus: LCDM. What can't this model explain about the universe? Shashank gives a tour through galaxies' dark matter hearts and Cormac shows how 1500 (ish? Unclear on this one) supernovae may hint at a flaw in LCDM.
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If you’ve ever wondered how your favourite telescope, rover or probe made it into space, then wonder no more! From 5G space junk to magnetic masses, we lift the lid on the lifecycle of space missions by peering into a preponderance of proposals.

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Space weather isn't just solar storms! In this episode, we explore extreme temperatures in space, Venus' climate, galactic cold fronts, and the most underrated parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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A[S]B turns 100! For our ten squared-th ep, we tour astrophysics extremes: the heaviest and lightest, fastest and slowest, brightest and dimmest. To help us, we meet up with old friends to talk dark matter, exoplanets, and how ridiculously long a Ph.D. takes.
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