Priya Natarajan on Scientific American’s 60 Second Science

Artist’s interpretation of a dark cluster of black holes. Credit: Getty Images
August 17, 2021

Yale Astronomy’s Priya Natarajan, professor of Astronomy, was on August 12th’s edition of Scientific American’s 60 Second Science on Black Holes, “Astronomers Find an Unexpected Bumper Crop of Black Holes”. In trying to explain the spectacular star trails of the star cluster Palomar 5, astronomers stumbled on a very large trove of black holes.

 

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