How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer

Find out how scientists are mapping the black holes throughout the Milky Way and beyond as well as the answer to the Escape the Kugelblitz Challenge Question. Were you able to save humanity? Get your own Space Time t­shirt at Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: Help translate our videos! Quasars, X-ray Binaries and Supermassive voids at the center of our galaxies … black holes take many forms. In this episode Matt tells us what these different types of black holes are and how scientists are using VLBI, Very Long Baseline Interferometry, to map the different black holes throughout the known universe. Resolving Microlensing Events with Triggered VLBI Karami, Broderick, Rahvar, and Reid, 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 833, 169 Last Episode - Have They Seen Us? The Escape the Kugelblitz Challenge Question Written and hosted by Matt O’Dowd Produced by Rusty Ward Graphics by Grayson Blackmon Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Challenge Winners: Pete Benzi Srikanth Reddy Dominique Jeremy Elser Mathieu Pütz Scott Seaver Henry Van Styn Antonio Park David Nicklas Giorgio P. Quasar Joel Brinton Luna IT Solutions Mahan Kaur Jordan Young Ratfeast Vitaly Kovalenko John Hofmann Joe Bernardo Higuera Jade Bilkey Kevin Warne JJ Bagnell J Rejc Michael Fischer Dylan Merida Colette Weeks Amy Jie Anthony Caridi Avi Goldfinger Corey Smeaton John Pettit Shannan Catalano Florian Stinglmayr Yubo Du Benoit Pagé-Guitard Ronny Polonia Nathan Leniz Jessica Fraley Kirk Mathews Loro Lukic Carl P. Corliss Brandon labonte David Crane Greg Weiss David Matteson Marc Lagarde Eric Jackson Will and Sonja Marple