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[Q&A] SMBH Images, Primordial Gravitational Waves, Terraforming Tidally-Locked Planets

Author
Fraser Cain
Published
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Episode Link
https://universetoday.fireside.fm/1370

Does terraforming a tidally-locked planet make any sense? Are the images we got of our galaxy's supermassive black hole fake? Can we observe gravitational waves that came before the CMB? And in Q&A+ who is currently working on space elevators? Answering all these questions and more in this Q&A show.

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00:00 Start

00:31 [Poshact] What's the feasibility of terraforming a tidally-locked planet?

03:26 [Jay Drummond] Why it's okay for space companies to dump rockets into the ocean?

05:50 [Scott Smillie] Is the image of Sag A not real?


08:44 [Richard R] Do we expand the observable Universe if we launch a telescope 1 ly from Earth?

10:02 [michael blacktree] Can we observe gravitational waves before the CMB?

13:11 [Uğur E.] When do we start orbiting our SMBH after leaving the solar system?

15:06 [drZab] Should we be building a big spaceship in orbit?

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