Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Save 50% off the Vantage plan through my link for unlimited access this month only. - AD | Hello and welcome to this episode of Night Sky News for November 2024. This is the show where we chat about what you should look out for in the night sky in the next month, and what’s been happening in space news in the past month. In this episode we’re chatting about whether there are primordial black holes in our solar system, plus the stats on the latest round of observing proposals to use JWST, and whether black holes could be dark energy, and responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe.
Croker et al. (2024; more evidence for black holes as dark energy?) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.12282
Tran et al. (2024; using the solar system as a primordial black hole detector) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.17217
Farrah et al. (2023; black holes as dark energy maths) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acb704/pdf
Farrah et al. (2023; black holes as dark energy observational evidence?) - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acac2e/pdf
JWST Call for Proposals Cycle 4 - https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-opportunities-and-policies/jwst-call-for-proposals-for-cycle-4#gsc.tab=0
JWST proposals breakdown for Cycle 4 - https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2024/jwst-observers-break-their-own-record-for-astronomical-proposal-submissions
JWST proposals selected in previous cycles - https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-programs
My previous videos on the Crisis in Cosmology - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUf5TRqYoMYxEwjT6JIDW4Zn
My previous video on the DESI Year 1 results - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRUTnoveZs8&t=2s
My previous Night Sky News video on the black holes as dark energy idea - https://youtu.be/3gg1OS435UE?t=1247
My previous video going through JWST Cycle 2 proposals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVW3IT0B4gI
My previous video on the evidence for dark matter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbE8B7zggUg
My previous videos on alternate theories of gravity - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd19WvC9yqUe_IteZI-qP_yqvohNR9Of3
00:00 Introduction00:56 Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars visible
01:17 Venus in Teapot of Sagittarius
02:36 Jupiter at Opposition 7th Dec
04:27 Geminids Meteor Shower Peak (on nearly Full Moon sadly)
06:47 Ground News AD
09:12 JWST Proposal Cycle 4
15:50 Using the Solar System as a primordial black hole detector
22:35 Black holes are dark energy?!
32:28 Outro
33:10 Bloopers
Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
Video edited by Jonny Hyman
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👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.
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