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How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

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April 25, 2015

Jedidah Isler: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

04:19 minutes · Filmed Mar 2015 · Posted Apr 2015 · TED2015

Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she’s an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes: quasars. In this short talk, she takes us trillions of kilometers from Earth to introduce us to these objects that can be 10 billion times the mass of the sun — and which shoot powerful jet streams of particles in our direction.

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As an astrophysicist, I have the awesome privilege of studying some of the most exotic objects in our universe: supermassive, hyperactive black holes. Weighing one to 10 billion times the mass of our own sun, these galactic black holes are devouring material at a rate of upwards of 1,000 times more than your 'average' supermassive black hole."

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