Did Gravity Wipe Out The Dinosaurs?
5/13/202619 min
How do we calculate a black hole's event horizon? Does Mercury's tail impact Earth? Can we name a planet Rupert? And did gravity wipe out the dinosaurs? Izzie Clarke & Dr Becky Smethurst dive into the rather whimsical Supermassive Mailbox to answer your questions.
Want to name an Exoworld? Here's the IAU website to start a campaign: https://nameexoworlds.iau.org/
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Izzie Clarke· Host1:04
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to another bonus episode of the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society. With me, science journalist Izzy Clark, astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst, and the society's deputy director, Dr. Robert Massey.
Becky Smethurst· Host1:22
We've not gone through our Supermassive mailbox in a while [laughs] yet we get a lot of questions. But sometimes, you know, we just